Scrabble clone Scrabulous, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, shut down service in North America. Now the official version of Scrabble is the only way to match vocabularies with your friends on Facebook.

This appears to be the final move in the long-stranding legal legal battle that involved Hasbro (owners of the North American Scrabble rights), Mattel (owners of the international Scrabble rights) and Electronic Arts (developers of the officially sanctioned version on Facebook) against the two brothers in India who created Scrabulous.

You had a nice run, guys. But sometimes Goliath wins. Especially when he's three Goliaths. And especially when you've directly copied his intellectual property. Now get out there and stick it to The Man by making us a version of Monopoly called Monopulous.