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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Not so much "aggressive" as "vicious."
Harlan Ellison's one of the few authors who's successfully sued TV & movie studios for copyright infringement. In order to do that, he had to be tenacious and several types of aggressive, and really good at cutting through corporate BS and vague rationalizing doublespeak.
And then fans started distributing his books on alt.binaries.e-book. And he went after those, as he could find them; found one & sued (the case was settled for a few thousand dollars).
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He famously said, not so long ago, "If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump".