Do you know, why in America you have to write "hot" on cups of coffee and "don't use to dry your pets" on microwave ovens?
It is, because there, this IS an excuse.
MacDonalds payed quite dearly for not saying definitely, that if you buy hot coffee, the coffee tends to be hot and can give you burns if you get it on your clothes. That's why you only get semi-warm coffee from them since then.
And the Music Industry pays their lawyers quite well and cann afford to lose.
We can't.
And additionally this message is especially important, because there are websites which make the Visitors pay for "free legal downloads" just to send them to the Phex download page afterwards. Those Users could claim they didn't know anything, and besides all that: This message ensures to soem part the ongoing developement of Phex, so I think it is a small price
