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  • Report:  #205991

Complaint Review: SPIRIT - Moscow Europe

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SPIRIT
B. Kommunisticheskaya, 27 Moscow, Europe, Russian Federation
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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


1 Updates & Rebuttals

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).

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