Did you read the sentence almost immediately before that? "We've never liked the DMCA's anti-circumvention language, so we'd be delighted to see the rest of th

Did you read the sentence almost immediately before that? "We've never liked the DMCA's anti-circumvention language, so we'd be delighted to see the rest of the judiciary agree with Judge Marshall." I don't think it's insulting, but rather that the author thinks others might interpret the judge's ruling as one that he didn't do his homework. Now, if the judge had written a larger report specifying exactly why the ruling stands in great detail, this ruling would have been a bigger precedent and not something that is just about DVD ripping and not against the whole DMCA anti-circumvention.