Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words


	Online Scrabble Craze Leaves Game Sellers at Loss for Words

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3-1-2008 8:21 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4588172a-3b00-4818-8514-7d5afbe3e740/21544C55-A5FE-4BE4-A7AF-6352B7EC230F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=a6482903de50fe5d&ex=1362114000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=a6482903de50fe5d&ex=1362114000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=a6482903de50fe5d&ex=1362114000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">NEW DELHI — The latest bane of office productivity is Scrabulous, a virtual knockoff of the Scrabble board game, with over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=a6482903de50fe5d&ex=1362114000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Fans of the game are obsessive. They play against friends, co-workers, family members and strangers, and many have several games going at once.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=a6482903de50fe5d&ex=1362114000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Everyone seems to love the online game — everyone, that is, except the companies that own the rights to Scrabble: <A title="More information about Hasbro Inc." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/hasbro_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Hasbro</A>, which sells it in North America, and <A title="More information about Mattel Inc." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/mattel_inc/index.html?inline=nyt-org">Mattel</A>, which markets it everywhere else.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ei=5088&en=a6482903de50fe5d&ex=1362114000&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">In January, they denounced Scrabulous as piracy and threatened legal action against its creators, two brothers in Calcutta named Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla who run a software development company. Both Hasbro and Mattel  said they were hoping for a solution that would not force them to shut down the game.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/21544C55-A5FE-4BE4-A7AF-6352B7EC230F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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