Yaroslav Pronin, BT client LibreTorrent Android open source developers, one morning last month, found their application is Google play store shelves without warning underground. At the same time, he received an email from Google, Google will LibreTorrent marked as "junk software" (non-original), due to violation of policies and inform the application has been removed.
Pronin was shocked to appeal Google, hopes to find out the situation. A few days ago, he posted acknowledged the receipt of the reply, but Google rejected his appeal. In the mail, Google remains found "junk applications," and said that "repetitive" or "low-quality" software is not allowed.
Pronin guess this is because there are many clone LibreTorrent on Google Play, and Google uninstalled all applications without knowing the nature of things. He also confirmed that he is sending information LibreTorrent original developers, but it does not work.
If you want to rejoin the Google play store, LibreTorrent may need to rename, everything has to start over. This is quite a blow for the already established brands.
Even more distressing is that other copycat version LibreTorrent developer has intercepted their resources and began to abuse. Pronin from 2016 found many clone LibreTorrent appear on Google play. And the software is open source release of these people are not clones even modify the source code, they are only slightly modified name, and joined the advertising. Pronin had reported last year, many cottage application has been deleted, but then still again and again.
Next, LibreTorrent 2.0 upcoming release, Pronin very helpless, he can still use Google play shelves unknown. Currently, Pronin posted online posts , given the other addresses available for download.
Source: TorrentFreak