Do you think judges understandrthat code is speech written on a distributed network and that locking up the writer for wrong-speak does not change this?

Doesn't matter. The fact that they were collecting a fee for services is what qualified what they were doing as a money transmitting business. No fee, no business model. Their greed is what got them in trouble. Had they just released some open source code and not built a fee structure into it they w...

I'm not agreeing with the judgement.