Aptoide and forks banned from the Market

Hi guys...

Yesterday Aptoide and forks (ApkTor, F-Droid,...) were banned from the market without further explanation.
Aptoide is in the market for more than one year.
It seems the growing momentum of Bazaar (http://bazaar.aptoide.org) triggered Google's decision.

There is an interesting thread going on on the Android forum:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android+Market/thread?tid=1287303ed883043f&hl=en

Some people defend that is being used to warez.
Some state that an open definition of apks repository and a GPLv2 client is important when a growing number of non-compatible proprietary app stores (Samsung, Acer,...) are showing up.

Have a nice 2011.

 

Maybe they are scared by http://blog.mylookout.com/2010/12/geinimi_trojan/.

 

What's your point with this thread?

 

Maybe to get our opinion about it, or just to start a discussion about it?