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The fight between Scrabble and Scrabulous continues to unfold. As we have reported earlier, Scrabble owners Hasbro filed a lawsuit claiming the developers of the Facebook word game application Scrabulous violated their copyrights because their game was too similar to the real Scrabble game. Later Facebook decided to take down Scrabulous.

Now the Scrabulous creators, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, have returned with a new Facebook word game, Wordscraper, that looks and feels much different than their first effort. Will this new alteration keep the Hasbro folks from any more legal action? Stay tuned. Meanwhile the official Scrabble Facebook game, developed by Electronic Arts, has come back online after hack attacks forced its shutdown on Tuesday.

Things are apparently getting nasty in the ongoing Scrabble-Scrabulous Facebook fight. Hasbro sent out a lawsuit against the creators of Scrabulous last week, stating that the popular Facebook game application was a copyright infringement on their own Scrabble game. In response, Facebook announced it was taking down the Scrabulous app from its social networking site.

However on Tuesday hackers decided to attack Hasbro's recently launched Scrabble Facebook app (developed by Electronic Arts) and as a result that game had to be taken down as well. Our sister site Game Daily reports that EA hopes to "resolve this issue and have Scrabble back online and ready to play as soon as possible."

Once upon a time a few game programmers created an online word game called Scrabulous. That game was made specifically for Facebook and became tremendously popular among the social network's users. Now Hasbro has finally decided to step in. As expected the owners of the Scrabble word game have filed a lawsuit against Scrabulous's creators, accusing them of copyright infringement.

Hasbro just launched their own online Scrabble game via publisher Electronic Arts so a lawsuit going after the creators of Scrabulous was inevitable. Hasbro also served Facebook with their own copyright infringment lawsuit, asking that they remove the Scrabulous game immediately from the network. So far there's been no response from the game's creators or Facebook.