[fauigerzigerk]

There is a very simple solution. Have a competetent reviewer look at the code and decide whether the intent is malicious or not.

If the intent is clearly not malicious and no rules were broken, the reviewer should file a bug report to fix the virus scanner and reinstate the developer account. No further explanation required.

If rules were breached but it may have been done in good faith, issue a warning to the developer and explain in general terms how to fix the problem. Charge a review fee high enough to deter any abuse of the review system.

[cmsj]

"Have a competent reviewer" - requires humans, humans don't scale, proposed solution is not Googley.

(this is sarcasm, but from talking to Googler friends over the years, I doubt it's far from the truth)

[fauigerzigerk]

It scales just fine if they charge enough to discourage abuse. Also, the law should frankly require them to offer proper conflict resolution if they run one of two commercially viable app stores.