Good news. Everything that can lead attention to Bitcoin itself is good news, for Bitcoin can not be defeated under any circumstances whatsoever.
Of course it can be defeated, people can do it very easily and there is dozen ways to bomb bitcoin functionality. First of all bitcoin itself is indeed quite safe as long as network operates but bitcoin without its satellite services are just and 'experiment' so if government really want to spoil bitcoin they simply need to 'regulate' bitcoin related business.