[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Snakeforhire:
And how so, pray tell ?

I'm also in the same predicament as the OP, and i consider Google's move in JB as a blatant denial of EU (and especially french) law, which clearly states that every individual who legally purchases an app (or any other cultural "product", insofar as they can be called this way) has a (almost) god-given RIGHT to make a backup copy for safekeeping.. And it is especially infuriating considering that google wouldn't even fix their stupid "play store" app so it'd display the list of all purchased apps (as it used to do in the pre-ICS market app), making any new ROM-install a living nightmare when it comes to remembering all the apps you ****ing PAID FOR in the first place !!!

And why would you people report someone who asks such a question, automatically condemning him on no tangible grounds, making yourself the judge, jury and executioner in the process ??? it is especially stupid from you, considering that using this way to get free apps is a no-go, since the play store automatically recognizes if you purchased an app and if you didn't, it denies you any updates to the said app... You'd have to be a ****ing retard to opt for such an option, and I trust that (most) XDA members are way smarter than this (with the exception of the despicable people who rat out others on no justifiable grounds, that is)...

Are you an app-developer, or someone who actually has an interest to defend in this deal ? Your "senior member' status tells me you ain't, and my personal intuition tells me that you're no more than a lambda user who (unlike me) has probably never written down a single line of code in his whole life, nothing more than an (almost) "lamer", as we used to call them in the good old Amiga/AtariST days when I first learned programming in 68K assembler... Nothing wrong with that, except that it makes your opinion on this whole issue void of any credit, much less attention...

"Word to the wise" (and actually the easiest, most surefire way of living a long, healthy and troublefree life) : unless you have some personal interest to defend in the process, mind your own f-ing business, you nosy basterds !!

Ratting out on others is bad practice, and an recipe for trouble... Had you done this to me IRL, it would have guaranteed you a whacking 500g of very bony meat directly from my right arm right across your ugly mug.. And you even might have considered yourself as lucky at that, because I know a few very unfriendly people who for much less than this would actually have gone so far as to 'suicide' you with 2 or 3 bullets to the head, and your sorry remains would only have been discovered 30 or 40 years from now, in the cement foundations of a building undergoing demolition...

</flame off>

(My apologies to any people who might have felt offended by my words, but I can't help it, I ****ing hate delators... They're the first step to most of the horrors that my (and many other european) country has had to live in its darkest hours, sometime during the mid-20th century -during WW2, for the most ill-understanding of whoever might be reading this... Those scars never heal, they can only fade out very slowly. :s)