SPIRIT CORP This company use pirated software products to perform custom developments for their American, Japanese, and European clients ripoff Moscow Russian Federation
Moscow-based company SPIRIT CORP (their websites are http://www.spiritcorp.com and http://www.spiritdsp.com; headquarters address is B. Kommunisticheskaya, 27, Moscow, Russian Federation) use pirated Microsoft and other companies' software products on the corporate computers of over 100 of their employees at all of their units and labs, including the headquarters office, to perform the custom developments that their American, European, and Japanese clients order from them. In addition, they keep copies of pirated software products on computer disks, and store those disks at their offices.
This is a serious violation of the law (fraud/forgery), and it has been reported to BSA Russia, to Microsoft Russia, and to other investigating organizations. If your company is a partner of SPIRIT CORP, then you may want to independently verify the facts of piracy by contacting SPIRIT CORP and requesting them to present copies of their licenses for the software products that they use:
They have about 100 corporate computers and several applications (about 10 to 20) installed on each computer, so they should have respective software licenses and respective quantities of those licenses. Particularly, they should have several tens of licenses for MS Windows, MS Office, accounting software, software compilers, DSP developer tools (as they develop DSP products), and for other applications that they use.
Here is a partial list of their clients:
Adobe Systems www.adobe.com
Agere Systems www.agere.com
ARM www.arm.com
CML Micro www.cmlmicro.com
EADS www.eads.com
Flextronics www.flextronics.com
France Telecom www.francetelecom.com/en/
Furuno www.furuno.com
Kyocera America www.kyocera.com
LGE www.lge.com
Marconi www.marconi.com
National Semiconductor www.national.com
NEC America www.nec.com
Nortel www.nortel.com
Panasonic www.panasonic.com
Philips www.philips.com
PolyCom www.polycom.com
Rohde Schwarz www.rohde-schwarz.com
Samsung America www.samsung.com
Siemens www.siemens.com
Skype www.skype.com
Texas Instruments www.ti.com
Toshiba America www.toshiba.com
Trinity Convergence www.trinityconvergence.com
VTEL www.vtel.com
George Tyson
Moscow
Russian Federation
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George
Moscow (temporary residence),Europe,
Russian Federation
SPIRIT's clients list of their American, Japanese, and European clients
#2Author of original report
Mon, August 14, 2006
SPIRIT's website presents the list of their American, Japanese, and European clients:
http://www.spiritcorp.com (see the right part of website).