The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent the US Senate Judiciary Committee a letter opposing the proposed Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA).

Here are a couple of excerpts from the letter.

"We, the undersigned, have played various parts in building a network called the Internet. We wrote and debugged the software; we defined the standards and protocols that talk over that network. Many of us invented parts of it. We're just a little proud of the social and economic benefits that our project, the Internet, has brought with it."

"If enacted, this legislation will risk fragmenting the Internet's global domain name system (DNS), create an environment of tremendous fear and uncertainty for technological innovation, and seriously harm the credibility of the United States in its role as a steward of key Internet infrastructure."

The full letter can be read here.