Of course they should be banned.
And the same must happens with the HUDs. It's time for online poker to return to it's pre-Black Friday era. We can't put real human players and machines playing against each other.
1. HUDs also existed before Black Friday, and can hardly be blamed for US authorities cracking down on offshore sites offering online
gambling to people in the US.
2. HUDs dont play poker. They display data (heads up display), which a human player can then sometimes use to make better decisions at the table.
3. "The good old days" are never coming back. This is true in poker as in other parts of live. There is never again going to be a time, where real estate boom money is flowing around in the economy, and where people clueless about
poker strategy were ready to dust off stack after stack even at stakes like 100NL or higher.
There is also never again going to be a time, where nobody is regions like Eastern Europe, South America etc. had heard about online poker and figured out, it could be an alternative to a 300$ pr. month day job. And finally there is never again going to be a time, where training sites, solver software etc. did not exist.