So after my initial posts Facebook has begun removing Scrabulous from Facebook in most countries except for India where it is still pending a court case.

Facebook received a complaint from Mattel (the company that owns the rights to Scrabble outside of the USA) last month which forced its hand to pull the plug.

For the time being Wordscraper is still available on Facebook which is the replacement App created by the Indian brothers. On the ZA Tech Show one of the champs mentioned something interested and related to this – what happens if somehow the chap who invented chess suddenly slapped a copyright law and forced everyone either stop what they’re doing or pay royalties. Think of all the beautifully carved boards you can buy along some of the roads here in SA… Imagine trying to police that.