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==Release==
According to Reznor's Prodigy posts, the film was planned to be released on VHS and LaserDisc in May 1993. [https://www.theninhotline.net/archives/articles/display/327] However, due to its extremely graphic content, the ''Broken Movie'' has never seen an official release, with Reznor stating: [http://www. nin-pages.de/1994_Bside_Februar_english.htm] <blockquote>Sooo... let‘s say we put this thing out, and Interscope will have a big battle, it will be on MTV news because there‘s this movie condoning rape and dismemberment. [...] Every interview I do for the next five years is going to be what was your social responsibility for putting this out, which I think is none; it‘s a piece of art. It‘s a movie I funded, Peter did it, and it‘s interesting [...] So we just decided to sit on it, which career-wise for Nine Inch Nails was the best thing to do, although we spent a lot of time working on it.</blockquote> A copy was leaked on VHS in the 1990s and traded for years, resulting in many poor-quality, high-generation copies, and was later encoded and distributed through P2P networks.
However, on December 30, 2006, someone under the name "seed0" leaked a high-quality DVD image on The Pirate Bay; it includes the video for "Help Me I Am In Hell," which none of the fan-made compilations did, because the first leak had the video dropped out. It was leaked online by the same user who uploaded the leaked DVD version of ''Closure'' and it was speculated that Reznor himself was the source of the leaks. This was implied by a post on his blog on [[The Spiral]]: ''"12/21/06 : Happy Holidays! This one is a guilt-free download. (shhhh - I didn't say that out loud). If you know what I'm talking about, cool."'' [[Rob Sheridan]] has since confirmed that the ''Closure'' leak was from the NIN camp, thereby confirming that the ''Broken Movie'' leak was as well.[https://www.patreon.com/posts/rob-sheridan-ama-34278427]