Anti-piracy warnings: why punish honest customers

[Kyo28]

There's a thing that has been boggling me since the time of DVD-releases already. A lot of DVDs and now also Blu-rays start with anti-piracy related screens (warnings, something even a mini-advertisement). Worse, sometimes these can't be skipped and you need to wait until they're over to start your main feature or access the main menu.

So my thoughts are: why punish the honest customers? We honestly buy our blu's and yet we're the ones forced to watch such messages. Pirates just edit these messages out before burning their illegal copies. So the message completely misses its intended audience (the pirates)

I'd rather they just put a small disclaimer on the inside of the blu-ray case and be done with it.

Any thoughts?