Lexulous, which was previously known as Scrabulous and ran by an Indian company, was threatened to be shut down by Hasbro in 2008 before Facebook was asked to remove it from its platform.
It is run by an Indian company of the same name on a dedicated website, and is also available within the social networking site Facebook. Lexulous (formerly Scrabulous) is an online word game based on the commercial board game Scrabble. Hasbro threatened to shut Scrabulous down via legal means in January 2008. Facebook was also asked to pull Scrabulous from its site's application database, but initially demurred. Due to copyright infringement lawsuits, the game was removed from Facebook in 2008, first for North American users and later worldwide, with the Scrabulous website following suit. 
