More Music Industry News: UK 3 Strikes, MSN + MySpace, Spotify Loses CTO, Blinx, Lala & More

• UK Confirms Plans To Warn, Throttle, Kick Illegal Downloaders – The UK government will write in to November’s upcoming Digital Economy Bill a French-style, graduated-response method of tackling unauthorized downloading leading to possible suspension of ISP accounts. (paidContent)
• Microsoft's MSN is in preliminary talks with MySpace about using the social-networking site's music service, MySpace Music, to help power music offerings on the giant portal. (CNet)
• Spotify’s CTO Andreas Ehn has left the company just ad the company is preparing its launch in the US. Ehn tweeted Leaving Spotify for new ventures. Feeling a little sad but very excited and full of energy.”  and “Thanks, everyone wishing me luck! I’ll probably need quite a bit of it.” about his departure.
• Songs Used In Promotions Get A Ton Of Sales... So Why Does The Music Industry Try To Make It Harder? (Techdirt)
• Universal and Sony backed upcoming music video site VEVO has partnered with AT&T to support VEVO across a variety of connected platforms.
• Women's music festival Lilith Fair will return in 2010 with at least 18 cities. Details on the new web site.
• Video search engine blinx blinkx has added blinkx Music, a tool for finding and watching music videos online. They've has indexed over 33,000 hours of music video from 10,000 artists.
  on the Web.VentureBeat was less than impressed.
• Lala is preparing to launch an iPhone application that it says paves the way for the end of downloading songs in the MP3 format. (AP)