Agarwalla Brothers May Make Millions From Scrabulous
Brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the creators of the online word game Scrabulous, could make millions of dollars from their game, which started off as a hobby. The rights to for the Scrabble board game are held by Hasbro in North America and Mattel in the rest of the world. Both companies kicked off an online storm when they accused the brothers of pirating their game.
However with over 700,000 daily users Scrabulous has a mighty fan following and when these fans threatened to boycott products made by Mattel and Hasbro, the gloves were off. Speculations are that the company will now buy the game from the Agarwalla brothers.
The whole story began in 2004 when the brothers created the software version of Scrabble and called it Bingo Binge. Apparently they were miffed when a website where they played the game decided to charge users.
Courtesy: NewsLocale
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