The ongoing saga over the leaked script to Quentin Tarantino’s proposed next film, “The Hateful Eight,” was already getting pretty ugly, but it’s about to get even uglier now that Gawker Media has announced that it’s prepared to fight back.

Only one day after the Oscar-winning director filed a lawsuit against Gawker for allegedly leaking the script online, editor John Cook has denied that the publication infringed on copyright, releasing a six-point post on the website detailing why he believes that Tarantino is to blame for the leak. He even suggests that it was Tarantino himself who “turned the script into a news story, one that garnered him a great deal of attention,” backing up his claim with an excerpt from the director’s exclusive interview with Deadline Hollywood last week about seeing his work released online:

“I am not talking out of both sides of my mouth, because I do like the fact that everyone eventually posts it, gets it and reviews it on the net. Frankly, I wouldn’t want it any other way. I like the fact that people like my shit, and that they go out of their way to find it and read it.”

Cook claims that the site didn’t break any rules by posting a link to the leaked screenplay, but after suing the websites that the script was being hosted on, Tarantino also targeted Gawker for providing its readers with a method to download it, saying, “Gawker Media has made a business of predatory journalism, violating people’s rights to make a buck.”

In spite of this, Gawker has announced that it’s ready to fight the lawsuit. “Someone unknown to Gawker put it on a website called AnonFiles, and someone unknown to Gawker put it on a different website called Scribd,” a source at the publication said. “Last Thursday, Gawker received a tip from a reader informing us that the script was on the AnonFiles site, after which Gawker published a story reporting that the script had surfaced online.”

Cook goes on to say that sites like Defamer and Gawker “cover what people in Hollywood are talking about,” so it only made sense that they publish a story about the leaked script. The question, however, is whether Gawker acted illegally by posting a convenient link to download it, no matter how unethical it may have been. If the courts side with Tarantino, it could be a major turning point in how matters like this are handled in the future.