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Or suing developers who intentionally violate the ToS in a repeated manner like this. Make it financially far more costly to screw Google and the users over than it is currently profitable.

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It sounds like the people being screwed are SoundCloud and possibly some of the musicians who use it, not Google or the millions of users downloading the app. So if someone should sue, it should probably be them.

If the Play Store gets the reputation for being the wild, wild west it's bad for Google's developers and thus their business.

Yes. OP is literally "soundcloud_musician" on Reddit complaining about copyright infringement that's not taking place.

However forced ranking, deep linking, and previous ban evasion are all real concerns for Google's reputation as a corporate friendly gatekeeper.

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