Robert Santangelo has filed a counter-suit against five record labels and the RIAA for conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats. He denies having shared music illegally and claims it's impossible to prove that he did.
Santangelo is the son of Patti Santangelo, the 42-year-old suburban mother who was sued by the record companies in 2005. She refused to settle and made her case very public, and got support from lawyers and Nettwerk Records owner/Avril lavigne manager Terry McBride. Finally the RIAA dropped the suit and instead sued her son and daughter.
Robert has filed 32 defenses, but the ones that will attract attention claim that the major labels "have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States." He alleges that the companies, "ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy" by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency "to make extortionate threats ... to force defendants to pay."
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