This is the same Jolt that owns the legendary Planetarion (http://www.planetarion.com/) browser game. They don't seem to invest a whole lot of money into Planetarion but apparently are creating an entirely new game. This is sad for me because I prefer science fiction and strategy over role playing and loved Planetarion back in the days. Jolt recently got bought by Omac Industries (http://omacindustries.com/). They also own Nation States, a popular nation simulation browser game.

I can imagine that this is part of the deal with the music industry. They might have said: ok, you may drop the DRM but if we find one of those DRM free files on a file sharing network we want to know who did it. Or maybe Steve offered this as compromise to the industry. Maybe he even exploited the industries apparent lack of understanding new technologies and told them it's a watermark. Well, probably not. But imagining the background stories that might have lead to things like "personal info in DRM-ree files" is fun!

To get their blog entries back people might be able to use Google Reader. If journalspace provided RSS feeds and if the entire blog posts were part of the RSS feed and if somebody subscribed to the RSS feed in Google Reader one should be able to obtain all blog posts from when the first user followed the blog with Google Reader. Here are some details: http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/2005/12/google-reader-api.html