This scenario is being repeated in China. In a widely publicized case, more than 40 Chinese authors posted an open letter to Baidu (arguably China's largest and most prominent search engine) on March 15, 2011, claiming that certain digital books posted on Baidu Wenku (????) violated the authors' copyrights and should be removed from the site. Baidu eventually removed "almost 2.8 million files, mainly from the Literary Works section of the site, which was the primary concern of the writers and publishers" after negotiations with the authors broke down. Nonetheless, Baidu took the position that, as an ISP, it was not liable to the authors for any monetary damages for any alleged copyright infringement since the foregoing activity was permitted by the PRC copyright regime safe harbor. Baidu struck a conciliatory tone in its approach with the protesting authors, no doubt in part due to the wide media coverage of the incident and the fact that the protesting authors included some of China's most prominent authors.