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===UK Non-US/Canada iTunes===The UK International iTunes version versions of the album included the Dave Sitek remix of "Survivalism" as a pre-order bonus track.

The game ran from roughly February 12, 2007 to May 2007, beginning when a string of mysterious websites was discovered around the internet related to the album; the game has since been nominated for two Webby Awards[http://www.theninhotline.net/news/#1207737486]. In an episode of the ''Sound Opinions'' podcast, Reznor revealed that the idea to do an ARG came from that used to market the 2001 film ''A.I. Artificial Intelligence''.[https://www.soundopinions.org/show/186] Learn more at the [[Year Zero Research]] page and view the [[Timeline of Year Zero Discovery|timeline of discovery]] for an explanation of how things unfolded, also, 42 Entertainment has a complete overview of the project [http://www.42entertainment.com/work/yearzero here]. A glossary of terms Terms and items related to the world of ''Year Zero'' can be found [[Year Zero Glossary|here]] and [[:Category:World of Year Zero|here]].

* When the CD is warmed up, the thermocrome thermochrome covering on the CD reveals a string of binary numbers that when translated into ASCII read "exterminal.net", leading to the website [[Exterminal|http://www.exterminal.net]].

==TouringSupport Tour==

==LiveRepresentation==All songs from ''Year Zero'' have been played live except "My Violent Heart" and . "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.

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.

In March 2007, the [[Multitracks|multitrack audio files]] of the first single, "Survivalism," were released in Garageband format on the official ''Year Zero'' website for fan remixing. The multitrack files for "Capital G"," "My Violent Heart" , and "Me, I'm Not" were then released on April 26; those for "The Beginning of the End"," "Vessel" , and "God Given" were released on June 12. The formats were for Garageband and Logic Pro, and there were also WAV files for other applications, with the latter distributed through BitTorrent. These files were also available in all three formats on remix.nin.com. The entire album was released in multitrack form as part of the ''Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D'' package.

In March of 2007, ''Kerrang! Radio'' reported that "Reznor admitted he's already in talks about a movie version of his upcoming album, a concept piece, with part two scheduled next year." Reznor said that he was more interested in a television project rather than a film and that he had a producer and had met with writers.  On August 14, 2007, Reznor announced that he and his creative team would soon be taking the concept to television networks to try and make some sort of deal: ''"We're about to pitch it to the network, so we're a couple of weeks away from meeting all of the main people, and we'll see what happens."'' [http://www.dose.ca/music/story.html?id=ead25b9c-b7f0-44aa-92c7-d083b6c83e1a&k=48608] On June 8, 2008, ''The New York Times'' reported that "Mr. Reznor has been working with Lawrence Bender, Quentin Tarantino’s longtime producing partner, to create a cable TV series to tell the entire story." [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?_r=3&pagewanted=2&ref=arts&oref=slogin#] On April 2, 2009, Reznor announced via a short Twitter post that "YZ is alive". On September 28, 2010, ''The LA Times'' reported that the ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in the above ''NY Times'' article was going into pre-production, with Daniel Knauf as a writer and Lawrence Bender's team as staff, and that the miniseries would be handled by BBC America and broadcast on HBO. [http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/] On March 10, 2011, Trent confirmed on the nin.com board that work on the TV series was still in progress. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.php?59,1227855,1227855#msg-1227855] On June 24, 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a section of news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and the screenplay for the 2008 film ''Jumper'', was chosen to write the script for the series. On December 23, 2011 in an interview by ''The Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the 10-part HBO mini-series, which is based on ''Year Zero'': "''I chose not to write it myself because I don't know how to do that. But now I'm thinking I should have. Somebody's got to do it, right? How hard can it be?''" [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true] On January 11, 2012 [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a user on Echoingthesound] said that Jim Uhls confirmed him via Facebook that he was working on the ''Year Zero'' TV series ("''I've been away from FB for awhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. [...]''" [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-Thoughts?p=13642#post13642])

On November 13April 2, 20122009, Reznor stated during an [[November 2012 Reddit AMA|announced via a short Twitter post that "YZ is alive"ask me anything. In a 2025 newsletter, comic writer Grant Morrison wrote: " session I worked with Reddit[Reznor]] thaton a TV adaptation of his Year Zero album concept which, like so many of these things, never happened because the studio decided to make some other shite everyone’s forgotten," which provided context for a July 14, 2009, tweet in which Reznor wrote: "Just had another interesting and enlightening conversation with Grant and Kristan Morrison. Repercussions to follow." On September 28, 2010, ''This is currently The LA Times'' reported that the ''Year Zero'' television series detailed in a holding state. We didnthe above ''NY Times''t find the right match article was going into pre-production, with Daniel Knauf as a writerand Lawrence Bender's team as staff, and really have been avoiding doing what we should have done from that the beginningminiseries would be handled by BBC America and broadcast on HBO. [http: write it ourselves//herocomplex. We = Rob latimes.com/2010/09/28/trent-reznor-and myself-hbo-moving-forward-with-year-zero-sci-fi-series/] On March 10, 2011, Trent confirmed on the nin. This project means a lot to me and will see com board that work on the light of day TV series was still in one form or anotherprogress. [http://forum.nin.com/bb/read.''"php?59,1227855,1227855#msg-1227855]

In August On June 24, 2011, ''Pitchfork Magazine'' had a section of 2013news stating that Jim Uhls, the man who had written the screenplay for ''Fight Club'' and the screenplay for the 2008 film ''Jumper'', it was stated chosen to write the script for the series. On December 23, 2011 in an article interview by ''The Guardian'' Trent is quoted as follows about the 10-part HBO mini-series, which is based on ''Year Zero'': "''I chose not to write it myself because I don't know how to do that. But now I'm thinking I should have. Somebody'NMEs got to do it, right? How hard can it be?'' " [http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/21/trent-reznor-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack?newsfeed=true] On January 11, 2012 [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/members/433-Euphemism a user on Echoingthesound] said that HBO had rejected Jim Uhls confirmed for him via Facebook that he was working on the ''Year Zero'' TV series("''I've been away from FB for awhile. Now that I see it, I can answer. I am currently working on Year Zero. [...]''" [http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/139-Random-NIN-Thoughts?p=13642#post13642])

On November 13, 2012, Reznor stated during an [[November 2012 Reddit AMA|"ask me anything" session with Reddit]] that: "''This is currently in a holding state. We didn't find the right match with a writer, and really have been avoiding doing what we should have done from the beginning: write it ourselves. We = Rob and myself. This project means a lot to me and will see the light of day in one form or another.''" In August of 2013, it was stated in an article by the ''NME'' that HBO had rejected the series. It was revealed by Rob Sheridan in a 2019 episode of the ''[[Pod Like A a Hole]]'' NIN [[podcasts|podcast]] that he and Reznor had at one point considered making a comic book based on ''Year Zero''.

*[https://robsheridanwww.tumblr.com/postrobsheridan/45355542834/trent-reznor-london-2007-promo-photos-by-rob ''Year Zero'' promo photos by Rob Sheridan, part 1]