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.