I’m a big fan of Scrabulous the facebook application. Probably have 6-7 games going at any given time. Unfortunately for the Agarwala brothers, who developed it, they got sued by Hasbro for violation of their copyright on Scrabble. Real who has the rights in Europe wants to work something out, but not Hasbro who sued to shut them down. This has led to a circumstance where the game is not available in the US and Canada, but is all over the rest of the world.

I think what I feel now can only been described as schadenfreude. I am taking delight in geographical restrictions on content finally being applied to people in the US, instead of the rest of the world like it usually is. This has been something that’s annoyed me for years. The first time I encountered it was when I wanted to find out more about the Penn and Teller show Bullshit. This was years ago back in 2003, when I first heard the show was coming out, and they are a lot more international user friendly now. But while they have gotten better buying digital goods has gotten a lot tougher. I like to buy stuff, pay for stuff online all the time, but as of right now it seems like Audible is the only company selling digital media who wants my money. I miss allofmp3.com. Not Apple. not Amazon, none of the TV networks, if I want something like Heroes, or House my only choice is to Pirate it.

Ive been collecting screenshots of messages where I cant see content that Im looking for. Some are more egregious than others(Im looking at you NBC), but they all annoy me.  Here’s a slide show.