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This was pretty much expected. Why don't people respect copyright laws. Businesses should not be run this way.


I've voted you up - not sure why you were voted down. If I created a business and then I was ripped off then I'd not be happy - be it online or a physical business.


He was voted down because you apparently can't trademark how a game works. Something like that. It was discussed in the previous thread.


Still, it leaves a slightly bad taste in the mouth, legal or not.

Edit: now off to work on my Riscaculous application...


I'd agree, but Scrabulous made their game for fun above everything else. If they were in it for money they'd have sold out a long time ago. And I can't be angry at people building a tribute to a game they love, not if it's not harming anybody else.


You are talking illogical now. With your analogy, even Youtube is paying tribute to thousands of musicians by storing copyrighted content on their servers where they are letting fans to listen or watch copyrighted content for free.

We all know brothers made close to $25,000 from Scrabulous every month and they were actually ready to sell but $10 Million was not enough for them.




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