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Re:Scrabulous shut down on Facebook by jfarmer on Tuesday July 29, 2008 @01:18PM (#260800)
Hasbro reportedly offered them a large sum and they turned it down. Serves 'em right.
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Re:Scrabulous shut down on Facebook by jrockway on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @04:13AM (#261638)
Turning down a company's offer to buy you out is a valid reason for them to apply a law designed to prevent movie piracy against you? That "serves 'em right"?

It "serves 'em right" for trying to profit from a clone of someone else's idea, but I doubt they did anything illegal. I hope they fight this and win, but it's a shame that they didn't use the opportunity to create a slightly different variant of Scrabble. Maybe it would have been better.

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Re:Scrabulous shut down on Facebook by jfarmer on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @11:57AM (#261936)
Yes, it does. What did they think Hasbro was going to do if they turned down the offer? Shrug and walk away?

I'm surprised Hasbro even made an offer, honestly. I thought they would have pressured Facebook to do something like this right away.

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Re:Scrabulous shut down on Facebook by jrockway on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @10:59PM (#262609)
I'm surprised Hasbro even made an offer

I'm not. Buying them would have saved Hasbro the effort of hiring developers that knew the Facebook API, getting popular on Facebook, etc. They would have instantly had a popular product and qualified developers to work on the project.

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