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> Maybe my memory is failing.
Not your memory, it's your reason. Basically, what you ask of your customer base is a reverse proof of negative. Your belief is that your customers cause you economic harm through piracy. As it is not proven to be false, you choose to believe it is true. Then you require proof to the opposite of your customers.
> Encourage people to at the very least first try sourcing their ebooks legitimately
This try will likely fail, unless the "people" are interested in military SF (Baen) or can read russian (litres). Possibly there are other niche bookstores, but overall, chances you find something in english that interests you are not good. Unless you are a) US resident and b) accept your books to be crippled with DRM. If you fail at both, darknet and gutenberg are your friends. So, are you trying to recruit me to get my friends and family used to DRM? Or what?
> Then open a dialogue with publishers
Last time I did that I was nicely asked to not post on their forum again. Apparently I came accross as being their enemy. With each passing year, the feeling is increasingly mutual.
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