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All songs from ''Year Zero'' have been played live except "My Violent Heart". "Zero-Sum" has never been played as a standalone piece; however, a piano version was regularly used as an outro to "In This Twilight".
==Regarding The LeakAlbum Leaks==On April 1, 2007, a bootleg recording of the Chicago, Illinois , listening party of March 18, 2007 , surfaced on several peer-to-peer networks. The quality of the recording is very low , and it is apparent that whoever made the recording did not have very good sound capturing equipment, presumably a cellphone.
On April 4, 2007, a high-quality leak of the promotional disc supplied to listening parties was also leaked onto peer-to-peer networks. Perhaps to counteract and discourage any piracy of the leak, the entire album was made available for free streaming on the album's official website later that afternoon. Shortly after the stream was made available, high-quality leaks rips found their way to various sites and P2P networks.
Perhaps in another response to the leak, Reznor commissioned Q101 in Chicago to play the entire album on their radio station.
It is widely rumored, however, that Reznor himself was responsible for leaking the album as a result of his unappreciation for the RIAA's Cease cease & Desist warrants desist noticed issued to various websites that hosted free downloads of the 4 USB "leaks". Reznor's own involvement with the leak, however, will always be speculation at best , due to his own legal liability.
==Multitrack Files==