App banned on Google Play- any ideas?
"REASON FOR REMOVAL: Violation of section 4.4 of the Developer Distribution Agreement.
After a regular review, we have determined that your app downloads, monetizes, or otherwise accesses YouTube videos in violation of the YouTube Terms of Service orYouTube API Terms of Service. Accessing content, a product, or service in an unauthorized manner is a violation of the Developer Distribution Agreement, and is not allowed on Google Play.
This particular app has been disabled as a policy strike. If your developer account is still in good standing, you may revise and upload a policy compliant version of this application as a new package name.
This notification also serves as notice for remaining, unsuspended violations in your catalog, and you may avoid further app suspensions by immediately unpublishing any apps in violation of (but not limited to) the above policy. Once you have resolved any existing violations, you may republish the app(s) at will. Before publishing applications, please ensure your apps’ compliance with the Developer Distribution Agreement and Content Policy.
All violations are tracked. Serious or repeated violations of any nature will result in the termination of your developer account, and investigation and possible termination of related Google accounts. If your account is terminated, payments will cease and Google may recover the proceeds of any past sales and/or the cost of any associated fees (such as chargebacks and transaction fees) from you.
If you feel we have made this determination in error, you can visit this Google Play Help Center article for additional information regarding this removal.
The Google Play Team"
The thing is, I used the Andromo YouTube activity which I believe to be fully compliant. I'm absolutely going to visit that article and see what I can do, but does anybody else have ideas about what I can do? That app was receiving a ton of downloads and was a good portion of my revenue from Andromo.
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If your app was monetized in any way and only contained YouTube activities (didn't include any additional content), that may have something to do with the rejection. As I said, see 4.D and 5.B in the YouTube terms: Some of that uses language aimed more at websites, but the general idea is that trying to package and re-monetize YouTube content without adding sufficient value in the form of additional content is outside their terms.
First time of submit was okay. After a while I've made some changes only in the information of the app, and then It was rejected! (the first submission stayed only the update was rejected).
So unless someone is intentionally flag or complain about copyright infringement Google won't remove the videos from YouTube - and I can't link to it from an app... Hypocrisy someone?