Game maker Hasbro has succeeded in rubbing out the Facebook game, Scrabulous. Facebook is telling punters that, "Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice."

It has since issued a press release saying that in response to a legal request from Hasbro, the copyright and trademark holder for Scrabble in the U.S. & Canada, the developers of Scrabulous have suspended their application in the U.S. and Canada until further notice.

Scrabulous was developed by Rajat and Jayant Agarwall two years ago.  It was hugely popular, but Hasbro used a DMCA takedown notice demanding that the social network remove the application.

More cynical people think that the move is designed to force the Agarwall brothers to take a small amount of cash while Hasbro walks off with a potential money spinner from Facebook.

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