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Microsoft drops MSBlast writer's $500,000 penalty

Brad Wardell   on 30 March 2005 - 18:50 · 52 comments & 4397 views

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Jeffrey Lee Parson, the teen convicted of writing a variant of the MSBlast worm, won't have to pay $500,000 in restitution.

The damages were to be paid to Microsoft for the teen's actions, which piggybacked on a worm that temporarily downed the software giant's Web site in 2003. The tech behemoth has asked that the 19-year-old's punishment be converted from the fine to 225 hours of community service.

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