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EMI representatives, however, made it clear that the band’s works won't be appearing at the iTunes Store just quite yet, according to the Financial Times. “Conversations between Apple and EMI are ongoing and we look forward to the day when we can make the music available digitally. But it's not tomorrow,” EMI global catalog president, Ernesto Schmitt, commented.

EMI’s big concern right now is that the band's works might be pirated and that it could be held liable by the group members.

“If one [EMI] employee decides to take it home and wap it on to the Internet, we would have the right to say, ‘Now you recompense us for that.’ And they’re scared of that,” band member Paul McCartney said.

- Yoko: Beatles coming to iTunes, MacObserver.com, September 9, 2008.

3. Last Sunday France awoke to the news that Strauss-Kahn, the head of the International Monetary Fund and leading light of the Socialist party, had been arrested on board a plane and charged with sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a chambermaid in his room at a Sofitel in New York. He denied the allegations “with the greatest of firmness”. For the world, it was shocking enough; for much of Paris, it was insupportable – especially after pictures emerged of Strauss-Kahn, unshaven and forlorn, handcuffed in court.

In the hours and days that followed the arrest, a string of friends and Socialist allies stepped forward to defend a man they insisted could not have done such a thing. Jean-François Kahn, a well-known journalist, said he was “practically certain” that what had taken place had not been an attempted rape, but “an imprudence... the skirt-lifting of a domestic”. Jack Lang, a former Socialist culture minister, wondered why, when “no man had died”, Strauss-Kahn had not been released on bail immediately. Philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, meanwhile, raged against a legal system that had treated DSK like “any other person”. “Everybody,” declared the philosopher, “is not everybody!”