Game maker tries to legitimize Facebook Scrabble

July 7, 2008 By ANICK JESDANUN , AP Internet Writer

(AP) -- As Facebook has blossomed into a hot Internet hangout, its users have passed countless hours playing Scrabble with friends - or at least, an unauthorized version of the word game that Scrabble's owners have tried to shut down. Now a video game maker will try to legitimize the activity.

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to me it seems that intellectual rights in our society are pushed to the level where it is absurd
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