Not so Scrabulous

Lawyers representing the toy makers Hasbro and Mattel have asked Facebook to remove the Scrabulous game the site. The add-on has proved highly popular with users with more than 500,000 user per day and the move to pull it from the site has angered some users and resulted in protests

In true facebook activist style - a "save scrablous" group has already been started and already has 600 members. A member of the group was interviewed by BBC radio - "A lot of people are saying shame on Hasbro, shame on Mattel, if you wouldn't be so short-sighted about this then you have an opportunity to actually make some money from this rather than alienate your existing customers.

"I'd say find some common ground. Look at licensing," added Mr Savage. "Perhaps sit down together and say look, these guys have created this fantastic piece of software that lots of people use why not employ them or have a similar product on there that is licensed but use that to advertise your other products?"

Facebook member, see it here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scrabulous/5520804123