DISQUS

What an uninformed article.

1. Facebook did not kill Scrabulous. Facebook received the notice, and the owners of the game voluntarily pulled it before FB even had a chance to respond or take any action of any kind.

2. Hasbro has a very serious obligation to make claims on its intellectual property. As any IP lawyer knows, if Hasbro fails to take action on infringement cases, they may lose their right later to take action if an even more serious infringement case comes to light. By allowing other groups to infringe, however minor the infringement might be, on their IP, eventually anyone could infringe and Hasbro may lose the infringement claim.

None of this is to say you're wrong on your points, per se; perhaps Hasbro should have purchased Scrabulous. But what would that do? They would change the name anyway. If people love the game, they're not really going to care who provides it.

I like this better than Muxtape. While Muxtape is more versatile, letting me upload songs, I encode my songs in AAC, which it doesn't like. At least this way I can pick music others have posted and (most of) what I listen to is available via Seeqpod. Plus, the blogposting is cool.