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`IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
`FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
`MARSHALL DIVISION
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`BRIGHT DATA, LTD.,
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`Plaintiff,
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`vs.
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`TESO, LT UAB, et al
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`Defendants.
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` ( CAUSE NO. 2:19-CV-395-JRG
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` ( NOVEMBER 3, 2021
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` ( 8:30 A.M.
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`VOLUME 3
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`TRIAL ON THE MERITS
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`BEFORE THE HONORABLE RODNEY GILSTRAP
`UNITED STATES CHIEF DISTRICT JUDGE
`and a jury
`______________________________________________________________
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`SHAWN M. McROBERTS, RMR, CRR
`100 E. HOUSTON STREET
`MARSHALL, TEXAS 75670
`(903) 237-7464
`shawn_mcroberts@txed.uscourts.gov
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`statement?
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`Q.
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`Yes.
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`And Tesonet, founders of Oxylabs, please tell the jury
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`how you came up with the name Tesonet.
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`So, you know, when I've -- with my business partner, we
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`met -- we knew each other when we were little, and we
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`came -- we had -- just a company, and we had some very fancy
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`name. I don't remember, but it was very, very something about
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`group global, something like that.
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`And when we came to register it, it was a very rainy day
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`in Lithuania. And we stand in the line, and they said this is
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`taken, you have to, you know, figure out or go back into the
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`line.
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`So we did, you know, the old-fashioned way, how we can
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`call it. We came up with Tomas, Eimantas Sabaliauskas, which
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`is his last name, and my last name Okmanas, Teso, and net as
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`internet. Tesonet.
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`MR. GOVETT: Now, you can take that down, please?
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) How did you meet Mr. Sabaliauskas?
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`So I met him actually online in internet. He was from a
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`small village in Lithuania, and I was from Vilnius. And from
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`my early days, I was spending time online and we chatted. I
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`think we chatted for the first six years. We met in person
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`only after he came to Vilnius to study in Vilnius University
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`as well.
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`And did -- what did you do together? Did you eventually
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`get work together?
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`Yeah. He -- his background is in computer science, so
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`his bachelor degree is in computer science. But he is a
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`marketing guy.
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`And I, over the years in internet service provider,
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`taught myself. And I was very passionate about computers.
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`And I taught myself about network, about servers, about
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`computers in general.
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`And we thought our, you know, strengths and weaknesses
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`cover each other and his marketing knowledge, even though with
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`computer science background, and my technical knowledge with
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`business would be a good and powerful combination.
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`Q.
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`And how many projects did the two of you end up working
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`on?
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`So we did -- until we found the right one, we calculated
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`that it was 34 projects or products that we did until we found
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`the right one.
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`Q.
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`And in those 30-some-odd products or projects, did you
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`have any failures?
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`We don't call it failures. We never call anything a
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`failures.
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`What do you call it?
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`We call it divots, because you fail when you stop, and we
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`never stopped.
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`Now, how did Teso start?
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`So Teso started in my mom's and dad's apartment in
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`Vilnius. And we've been doing those products. But in 2012 or
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`early '13, a lot of things changed.
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`Q.
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`And what is Tesonet today?
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`So currently we -- our -- the biggest tech employer in
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`Lithuania. We are a company that has 2,000 people. We are
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`one of the biggest taxpayers in the country. We are a big
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`technology company.
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`Q.
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`Who owns Tesonet?
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`From the start until today, the company is owned by a
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`Eimantas, myself, and all the employees are shareholders as
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`well.
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`Q.
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`Is there any other ownership other than Mr. Sabaliauskas,
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`yourself, and the employees?
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`Q.
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`No. It's just us.
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`Now, what products does Tesonet have?
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`Currently we have two products. One is in cyber security
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`space. Another is Oxylabs.
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`And what companies does Tesonet have?
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`We have in terms of legal entities or --
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`Yes, sir.
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`So we have Teso LT, Metacluster, you know, Core Cigna,
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`and like Core 200 and many others.
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`hear you.
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`THE WITNESS: I'm sorry.
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`THE COURT: That's okay.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) How does Oxylabs relate to Teso?
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`So Oxylabs is just a Tesonet product.
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`How does Metacluster relate to Teso?
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`Metacluster is Oxylabs' legal entity's name.
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`Has Oxylabs grown in the last few years?
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`Yes, it did.
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`Tell us what it's like to work at Oxylabs.
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`You know, people say that to work to do -- at work we're
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`family, but we really mean it, because one of the first
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`employees, you know, team members that joined and still is, is
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`my wife. She works at HR.
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`Eimantas' wife works in marketing. All of my, you know,
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`best friends work at the company. My classmates work at the
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`company. Mr. Cerniauskas that you saw earlier who is the CEO
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`of Oxylabs, his sister works in the legal department of
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`Oxylabs, and she is -- actually she got married to the first
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`team member that joined, Jytautas.
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`So we are family. And we -- you spend so much time at
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`work, you have to treat them as family. So I'm not sure --
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`you know, we do a lot of things together, but at the company
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`we work only four days and a half. Fridays we have off.
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`We have extra health insurance. We have extra pension.
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`Not talking about free food or anything else, but we have, you
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`know, every three months we gather together, we have corporate
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`events or, you know, we call it parties, in a way.
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`Once in a year, we go to holidays together. We call it a
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`work-cation where we work for four hours and the rest of the
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`time we spend time together.
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`Q.
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`Now, Mr. Okmanas, I want to put up a demonstrative, but
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`before I do, please use Mr. or Ms. just for the purposes of
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`the record.
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`A.
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`Q.
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`I'm very sorry.
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`That's okay.
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`MR. GOVETT: Now, if we could look at DDX 4-1,
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`please.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) What do we have here?
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`This is a trip where we're going on the plane with
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`all -- with not all, but another plane, there is others, to
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`Spain for a week on a holiday for a work-cation.
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`Q.
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`Q.
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`Is that why everybody's smiling?
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`I hope so.
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`Okay.
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`MR. GOVETT: Now let me show you opening slide 53,
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`if we could, please.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) Did -- so this slide states, Oxylabs
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`believes that the evidence will show independent development,
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`five people worked 17 months, Oxylabs did not use, want, or
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`need Bright Data's patents. Is that true?
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`A.
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`Completely true.
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`MR. GOVETT: You can take that down, please.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) Now, in the process of developing your
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`product, did Oxylabs take a look at what Bright Data and other
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`competitors were doing in the marketplace?
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`A.
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`Yes, of course.
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`Did you look at public information?
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`Yes.
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`By the way, before I move off of this, the individuals
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`that we saw on that airplane a moment ago, did they all work
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`at Oxylabs?
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`Yes.
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`What's Oxylabs' greatest asset?
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`People.
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`Why?
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`We don't have trucks or buildings. We just have people.
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`The company is built by them. So we need to take care -- we
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`take care of them.
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`Q.
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`Now, let's go back to the independent development. When
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`you looked in the marketplace, what did you see?
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`So there were multiple providers in the space. Obviously
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`maybe at that time Luminati was one of the bigger ones. I
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`didn't do research about this sizing, but in the same time we
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`looked at everyone because we wanted to make it better.
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`After you did your public research, what did you do next?
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`We sat down with the guys and we thought how we can make
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`it better and we started developing it.
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`MR. GOVETT: Let me show you Plaintiff's Exhibit
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`484, if I could, please, starting at page 1.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) What is this?
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`This is our website.
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`MR. GOVETT: If we can go to page 5, please.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) It says, how companies use our proxy
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`service. Do you see that?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`MR. GOVETT: Now let's look at page 7.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) See in the middle, if we could pull that
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`out, reliable proxy services?
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`A.
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`Q.
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`Yes.
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`Tell the jury what this is intending to convey, please.
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`So what our technology does, we always go and collect the
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`data. When we do the pricing checks, we cannot have them old
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`or, you know, outdated from yesterday. Our customers need it
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`on the exact time on the millisecond level. So we always go
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`to the website. It can be, you know, American Airlines, and
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`we always check it and we always come back and give that to
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`the customer.
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`So it means that if it would be old one day or two days,
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`the customers would just -- wouldn't buy service from us.
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`They need reliable and accurate data.
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`Did Oxylabs create its own source code?
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`Of course.
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`Have you ever seen any private Bright Data source code?
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`Never.
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`Does Bright Data make some of its source code publicly
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`available?
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`Yes.
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`As far as you're aware, has anyone at Oxylabs ever seen
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`any Bright Data, Luminati, Hola private source code?
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`A.
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`They did not.
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`MR. GOVETT: Let's look at slide 24 from opening, if
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`we could, please. I'm sorry. It should be the timeline from
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`the proxy service. There we go. Thank you.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) Do you see the timeline at the bottom
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`here, sir?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`Was October 2016, is that the date when Oxylabs'
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`residential proxy service began development?
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`Q.
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`Correct.
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`And is February 2018 when Oxylabs' residential proxy
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`service launched?
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`A.
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`Yes.
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`MR. GOVETT: You can take that down, please.
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`Q.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) So how long is it about from -- from the
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`buying products from Oxylabs.
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`Does Oxylabs do business with eBay?
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`Yes.
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`With Amazon?
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`Yes.
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`With Target?
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`Yes.
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`With Walmart?
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`Yes.
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`With Pepsi?
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`Yes.
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`Are there other companies that we may not have heard of?
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`We have a lots and lots of customers.
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`MR. GOVETT: You can take that down, please.
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) And regardless of their size, is price
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`important to all these customers?
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`It's really, really important.
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`Let's talk -- when did you first hear of Hola?
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`Yeah, I heard about a long time ago, maybe '12, 2012 or
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`so.
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`And when the name Luminati came about, is that when you
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`heard about Luminati?
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`Yes.
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`Was Hola and Luminati a customer of Oxylabs?
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`Yes.
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`MR. GOVETT: If we look at Defendants' Exhibit 80,
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`please. If we can blow up the top?
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`(BY MR. GOVETT) This is an agreement entered into as of
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`December 2nd, 2015, between Hola Networks and UAB Tesonet.
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`Tell us about this agreement, please.
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`So, historically, Hola or Luminati were in the
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`residential proxy space and we were in data center proxy
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`space. And back in the early days, I reached out to Mr.
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`Vilenski, and we had chats back and forth, and they became our
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`customer. They started buying data center proxies from us.
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`And we see there Hola has developed, owns, and offers its
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`users the Luminati service, the Hola system, partner has also
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`developed, owns, and offers its users an alternative solution
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`partner system. Is the partner system your system?
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`Yes.
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`And if we look in paragraph 1, the services, during the
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`term of this agreement, Hola shall be entitled at its
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`discretion to transfer its user's internet traffic through
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`network proxies provided by partner through the partner
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`system. Is that what you're referring to?
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`Yes.
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`You could take some of their extra traffic?
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`Yes. So when they didn't have the capacity on their
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`residential pool, they would send the traffic to us.
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`Did you have any access to their technology?
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`MR. MANN: I understand. I just want to make sure
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`what I can say.
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`THE COURT: If you have a question, now's the time
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`to ask me.
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`MR. MANN: And that's why I'm asking, because I
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`don't want to come back here, is that they removed their SDK
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`from their product.
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`THE COURT: You can say based on --
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`MR. MANN: I can say they removed their SDK from
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`their product.
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`THE COURT: We'll go that far, but no further.
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`All right. Let's proceed.
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`of the jury.)
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`THE COURT: All right. Let's proceed.
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`MR. MANN: Thank you, Your Honor.
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`(BY MR. MANN) Mr. Okmanas, my question is, you removed
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`your SDK from your product. Correct?
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`We decided to discontinue SDK from Oxylabs, yes.
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`Okay. And the SDK, again, is what?
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`It's a software development kit.
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`All right. Now, at some point in 2015, you knew of a
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`company that sold residential proxy services named Hola or
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`Luminati. Correct?
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`I knew Luminati, yes.
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`All right. Now named Bright Data.
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`Yes.
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`Yep. And isn't that company -- let's just talk about
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`today. Isn't that a company that you knew at that time was a
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`leader worldwide in proxy services?
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`Leader is a strong word, but yes.
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`All right. It is a company that even today you know as a
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`leader in proxy services.
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`I wouldn't say that anymore.
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`Okay. It is a company that you would like to own.
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`Definitely not.
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`Okay. You've never indicated at any time that you would
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`like to own Bright Data?
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`In what way own?
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`You have never made an inquiry to the company that you
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`would like to buy them or own them?
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`A.
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`I've -- multiple times I've said to Mr. Vilenski and to
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`other guys that I've spoke with, Mr. Lenchner, that we could
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`do something big together.
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`Okay. As partners.
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`As -- in whatever form. I was not -- I don't have a form
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`in me. Partners, friends, co-owners, whatever. Just open
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`discussion.
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`Okay. But you would like to -- for them to sell to you,
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`time, you got -- had a communication with Mr. Vilenski where
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`you wanted to meet with him, and you and he actually met.
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`Correct?
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`Correct.
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`And you worked out a deal where you said you-all could
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`kind of work together a little bit maybe, and them use some of
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`your data information and you use some of their residential
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`information?
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`No.
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`What did you work out?
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`We had the same contract where Hola was buying services
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`from us.
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`Okay. Now, after you met with Mr. Vilenski, you also
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`somehow or another got a Luminati document about collect
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`reliable information, Plaintiff's Exhibit 204.
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`MR. MANN: If we could put that up. And if we look
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`at the second -- let's just flip through it, Mr. Wilson.
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`(BY MR. MANN) If we flip through it and -- I don't want
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`is this information that you had collected on Luminati after
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`you had met with Mr. Vilenski?
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`It is public information, yes.
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`Okay. And so is it true that at that time you had
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`become -- or you believed that, for your company to be
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`successful, you needed to do what Luminati and Hola were
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`doing?
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`In order to be successful?
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`Yes, sir. That was my question, yes.
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`Yes.
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`Okay. Now, at that time, Oxylabs did not have a product
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`that used consumer products like phones as proxies in 2015 and
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`'16. Isn't that correct?
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`No, we did not.
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`All right. And if we look at --
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`MR. MANN: If I could have 228, Mr. Wilson.
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`(BY MR. MANN) This email is dated May 29th, 2017, so
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`we're skipping forward a couple of years. And it
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`concludes -- it has a message to SimilarWeb, which you and Mr.
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`Govett talked about earlier. Correct?
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`Correct.
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`And so you had SimilarWeb collect more intelligence on
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`Luminati, or Bright Data. Correct?
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`I just used the service that said they had it collected.
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`I didn't ask them to collect any.
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`Well, you didn't use the service here; you actually
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`talked to somebody at SimilarWeb, didn't you?
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`It is the founder and CEO that I emailed him.
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`Okay. The founder -- I mean, most folks can't just email
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`the founder and CEO to get information, can they?
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`They can.
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`could be successful if they used your data center information
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`and you used some of their residential information?
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`We shared a very high-level talk both ways.
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`Okay. All right. And then immediately after that
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`meeting, you started to implement a virtual private network
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`which you had never had at Oxylabs. Correct?
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`I had NordVPN from 2012.
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`MR. MANN: Now, let's pull up Exhibit 221.
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`(BY MR. MANN) In this subject line, you say Hola SDK.
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`Correct?
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`Correct.
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`In 2016. Who is Sharon Favish?
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`She is office manager at Hola.
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`Okay. So you were trying to communicate with them to get
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`more information, correct, about Hola and SDK?
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`Ofer emailed me, not I did, if you go down.
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`Okay. And then right after that, November 16th --
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`MR. MANN: If you could pull up Exhibit 222.
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`(BY MR. MANN) -- within a week Mr. -- is it Cerniauskas?
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`Correct.
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`Mr. Cerniauskas, who is -- is he a co-owner of the
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`business, Mr. Cerniauskas?
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`You can say so. He's the CEO, yes.
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`Of Oxylabs?
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`Yes.
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`All right. Mr. Cerniauskas is talking to you and
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`down -- let's go to the middle where he says, I am Tom from
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`Lithuania, and I am looking for a company that could make me
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`an extension and promote it. Basically what I am looking for
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`is a system that works like hola.org. Correct?
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`Correct.
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`All right. So you're communicating with another company
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`to try to do the same thing that hola.org does. Correct?
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`No.
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`Let's go down further. I would like you to put either in
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`your existing extensions a code that I could use or IP proxies
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`I could use and scrape some internet targets. I may need an
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`HTTP proxy.
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`And then you go on. That's because you wanted to operate
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`in private -- in secrecy where somebody could -- where you
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`could put your company into an extension in another company.
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`Correct?
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`No.
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`Isn't that what you're asking somebody to do, I would
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`like to put either in your existing extensions a code?
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`I can't agree with your phrasing here.
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`Okay. And then you said, if you cannot add this to your
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`existing extensions, I would like you to create some and I
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`would promote myself. Correct?
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`It does say that, yes.
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