Scrabulous fans claim Scrabble bosses are doing themselves no favours

It seems yesterday’s Scrabulous scandal has taken Facebook by storm.

Since yesterday, the Save Scrabulous group on Facebook has seen membership jump from 600 members to 13,000.

Many fans of the game are saying that by rendering Facebook Scrabulousless, they’ll be doing themselves no favours. Their logic is that the popularity of the game online will mean more people will buy a real copy of the game to play at home. Oh we can see it now, Scrabble at frat parties.

Scrabulous is one of the more popular third party applications available on social networking site, Facebook.

Created by brothers, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, both software developers based in Kolkata, Scrabulous is basically an online version of Scrabble.

The copyright holders of real scrabble, Hasbro and Mattel, were none too pleased to note that this online version of their slightly less than popular board game was attracting quite a bit of attention.

Scrabulous has, on average, around 600,000 users a day with that being only roughly a quarter of the Facebookers who’ve added it to their profiles.

Hasbro and Mattel contacted Facebook on Tuesday and asked them to remove the application, stating that Scrabulous was "gross copyright and trademark infringement".