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Kenneth Parks Joins Brilliant Technologies as COO


    Brilliant Technologies Corporation (OTCBB:BLLN) today announced
    that Kenneth R. Parks has joined the company as Chief Operating
    Officer. Parks makes the move to Brilliant from EMI Music, where he
    had been serving as Senior Vice President, Strategy & Business
    Development, on a global basis.

    Parks comes to Brilliant at a pivotal point in its history. The
    company is gearing up to launch the world's first legal ad-supported
    peer-to-peer music service, Qtrax, which will provide fans with free
    access to high-quality, high-fidelity digital music files. Qtrax will
    also provide users with an array of allied services, including options
    to subscribe to an "all you can eat" premium version of the free
    service and to purchase individual tracks, albums and related
    products. Brilliant has already signed licensing deals with the major
    labels and music publishers (including EMI Music, Warner Music Group,
    Sony/ATV Publishing and Universal Publishing) and independents
    (including TVT, The Orchard and V2).

    "Ken is an exceptionally talented individual whose broad range of
    skills and experience is a remarkable fit with our business. Ken's
    leadership will be a key driver for the success of Qtrax and the long
    term growth of Brilliant," said Allan Klepfisz, Brilliant President &
    CEO. "His years of experience as a deal maker and attorney in the
    Internet and high-tech space include helping shape some of the
    Internet's earliest advertising-supported content syndication deals.
    That perspective, along with his deep background in intellectual
    property-based transactions and litigation, will be invaluable in
    maximizing the revenue potential of Qtrax and Brilliant's extensive
    portfolio of other intellectual property assets. In addition, his
    formal training as an electrical engineer and early career in device
    design give him a technical understanding of our products that is
    quite unusual to find in this industry. Ken's resume is really our
    ultimate wish list. I came to respect Ken's ability to see afar when
    we worked together on the EMI Music/Qtrax content licensing agreement.
    Given his background and skills, it is very pleasing that Ken has
    recognized the potential of our business."

    Parks commented: "I am delighted to be joining Brilliant in this
    moment of extraordinary change and opportunity in the music industry.
    With the explosive growth in online advertising, the potential
    advertising revenue attached to music is clearly tremendous. Qtrax
    stands at the cutting edge of this new business model and I firmly
    believe that ad-supported music will not only be a boon for Brilliant,
    but also for the industry as a whole. It is to the music industry's
    credit that they are embracing Qtrax as a new distribution vehicle
    that responds to the needs of users while respecting the rights
    holders. My time at EMI was immensely rewarding and I look forward to
    working with my former colleagues there and others in the music
    industry to launch this important new model for the distribution of
    music."

    As Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, for
    EMI Music, Parks acted as the company's chief commercial negotiator on
    strategic deals with the major digital music services, in addition to
    managing EMI's digital business affairs on a global basis. Parks
    joined EMI as Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs, in which
    capacity he was responsible for creating the templates for digitally
    exploiting the company's recorded music catalogue. Prior to EMI, he
    served as General Counsel for GetMusic LLC, a global new media and
    e-commerce start-up backed by Universal Music Group and Bertelsmann
    whose properties included GetMusic.com and Rollingstone.com. Before
    that, Parks was Chief Technology Counsel at Reuters, a pioneer of the
    ad-supported online content model. Prior to Reuters, he practiced
    intellectual property law with Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York.
    Parks began his career as a semiconductor development engineer at AT&T
    Microelectronics.

    Parks obtained his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in
    1992, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University in
    1989, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Lafayette College in
    1985.

    About Brilliant Technologies:

    Brilliant Technologies Corporation is a technology holding company
    devoted to research and development leading to commercialization of
    innovative, proprietary technologies. Through its subsidiary,
    LTDnetwork, Inc., the Company owns a range of cutting edge proprietary
    software designed to facilitate and enhance ecommerce. The Company is
    currently preparing for the launch of Qtrax, the company's innovative
    P2P file-sharing service, and has already signed deals with Universal,
    Sony/ATV, Warner Music Group, The Orchard, EMI Music Publishing and
    EMI Music, TVT Records, Go Digital, ASCAP and BMI. The Company is
    based in New York, New York and Melbourne, Australia. For more
    information about Brilliant go to www.ltdnetwork.com and about Qtrax
    to www.qtrax.com.

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