-- King Venture Inc., a Southfield, Mich.-based family restaurant acquisition, management and development company, which paid $85,000 to settle claims that it used unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Symantec software.

-- LinkShare Corp., a New York-based online performance-based marketing company, which paid $89,000 to settle claims that it was using unlicensed copies of Adobe, McAfee, Microsoft and Symantec programs.

-- Monterey Mushrooms Inc., a grower, shipper and marketer of fresh mushrooms in Watsonville, Calif., that paid $165,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk Inc., Borland Software Corp., Microsoft and Symantec programs on office computers.

-- Noble Systems Corp., an international call center software, computer telephony and customer contact technology company in Atlanta that paid $80,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Microsoft and Symantec software installed on its office computers.

-- PCB Piezotronics Inc., a Depew, N.Y.-based manufacturer of electronics for the measurement of dynamic pressure, force and vibration that paid the BSA $175,000 to settle claims that it had unlicensed copies of Adobe, Autodesk, Borland, Microsoft, The Mathworks Inc., SolidWorks and Sybase software on office computers.