Some dork writes a prank virus, and he gets threatened with up to 40 years in jail. He would have been better off to go shoot someone. At least then he would only be looking at around 7 to 10 years. Now I don't mean trivialize murder. The point I am making is that this guy basically pulled a prank. He didn't do any tangable damage. Things are getting way out of hand. The GOVT has too much power. Why take away this man's future for a stupid prank. Why is this a crime at all? This is more humor than anything. Microsoft shouldn't have left so many stupid doors open in their software.
Anyhow, that is my take on things