Sasser Author gets no jail time!

This is interesting, the author of the Sasser computer virus, now a eighteen year old German, has been sentenced to a year and a half of probation. This likely because when he was arrested, he was a few months short of being an . Oh yeah, he also had to do thirty hours of community service. Only thirty hours? This kid puts a virus on millions of computer and he only has to serve the community for a little over a day? I don't get it. I also don't understand why he won't get any jail time. The virus account for 25% of computer viruses in the first half of '04, and Bill Gates thought catching the author was so important that he gave away half a million dollars to two people that helped the police identify the creator of Sasser.