It is written in such a way, that you'll see it once for every update, not more, not less.

We need to be quite careful with copyright, especially now that LimeWire includes license-metadata and warns when the user tries to download anything without recognizeable license.

You are only warned not to infringe a copyright, what infringing means is a matter of your local laws.

But if you have a better text, which still protects those working of phex from prosecution, we would most certainly use it thankfully.

This message is a safeguard, so that no user can state in court "I didn't know, I wasn't allowed to download that. Phex is to blame for not telling me. Sue the developers, not me."

Having a choice means having to know what you are choosing to do beforehand. And to be sure noone sues The Phex Team (all who work on Phex) we must forbid every user to use Phex for copyright-infringement. Especially since we can't enforce that in any way, and it would be illegal if we tried, because we would then violate the privacy of Phex users.

Besides: In the USA a p2p-program loses in court, if it was advertised as a means to download copyrighted files for free. That's called "inducement", and it's illegal and can result in the Programmers and Supporters being sued, and I don't want to imagine the cost of that. So we definitely FORBID you to use Phex for copyright infringement.
If you listen to us is up to you.
We also FORBID ourselves to use Phex for copyright-infringement.
If we stick to our own "laws" is a privacy issue, so noone has the right to know, except for law enforcement, and for thaem to have the right to investigate there must be well founded suspicion.

Just be careful and check i2phex (by googling, i.e.).

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