Over the past three years, thousands of people have settled lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America for illegally uploading copyrighted songs. But Patricia Santangelo doesn’t plan on being one of them.

42-year-old divorced mother of five from Wappingers Falls, New York, didn’t set out to be a trailblazer, but when she was served with a lawsuit late last year claiming songs had been illegally shared using her computer, there was no way she was going to pay up to make it go away.

Read the full story here. And there’s a blog setup: Record Industry vs. the People to track the case progress. (via.)