After the above post, Reznor stated in an interview that he was interested in self-releasing future material:
''<blockquote>"I have one record left that I owe a major label, then I will never be seen in a situation like this again. If I could do what I want right now, I would put out my next album, you could download it from my site at as high a bit-rate as you want, pay $4 through PayPal. Come see the show and buy a T-shirt if you like it. I would put out a nicely packaged merchandise piece, if you want to own a physical thing. And it would come out the day that it's done in the studio, not this "'Let's wait three months" ' bulls---."''[http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21741980-5006024,00.html]</blockquote>
On October 8, 2007, Reznor announced that he was a free agent through a posting at both [[nin.com]] and [[The Spiral]]:
<blockquote>"Hello everyone. I've waited a LONG time to be able to make the following announcement: as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally atotally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different and it gives me great pleasure to be able to finally have a direct relationship with the audience as I see fit and appropriate. Look for some announcements in the near future regarding 2008. Exciting times, indeed."</blockquote>
===Remixing===