for a long time, the posting of copyrighted song lyrics and poetry to the site without approval from the copyright holders, while certainly frowned upon, was not actually prohibited. e2 chose to only passively enforce copyright law, in a manner similar to an isp (for which see ocilla section 512(c)). this policy changed in august 2003 to a more active one where writeups containing copyrighted material had to either conform to fair use guidelines (length limits, proportion of quoted material to new text) or be posted with permission.