Not that such a potentially dangerous and influential ruling from a little judgy wudgy like this is going to last, but according to him, source code is not protected free speech, giving Hollywood a major victory in their war against DeCSS-- a completely legal piece of software if it weren't for extremely dangerous threats to our basic freedoms in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. The one that our Congress passed in 1998 to benefit a few corporations and do both short-term and long-term damage to the general public in the Information Age. (See also analysis of the DMCA from the library perspective.)