Wikileaks and the future or law

Wikileaks has been a topic with a couple posts on it as of late because of its interesting precedent that it sets for the future of free speech in this country on the internet. This article by Alex Altman reviews the situation and asks whether or not the outcome is right. He makes an interesting point because the final situation was that the people behind wikileaks got the order to seal the web address overturned but this in itself he calls "unsettling." Why? because it is an example of technology being such a force that it can battle the law and win.
I find a couple problems with his argument. First it has been said countless times that tech is moving at a rate that our law cannot keep up so this isnt terribly surprising that tech beat back the law. Second, the internet has been ruled on previously in cases and it is supposed to be regulated as if it were cable television (mostly unregulated) this was simply a protection of speech under the first amendment and it was an attack from a traditional source, a corporation that was threatened by the effects of the free speech becasue it could hurt their chances in an upcoming court case. I do not find this "unsettling" rather refreshing.