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According to Reznor's Prodigy posts, the film was planned to be released on VHS and Laserdisc in May 1993.[https://www.theninhotline.com/archives/articles/manager/display_article.php?id=327] However, due to its extremely graphic content, the ''Broken Movie'' has never seen an "official" release. A copy was leaked 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 there is speculation that this version of the movie has been sourced directly from the master tapes and it was speculated that Reznor himself is was the source of the leaks, as . 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]
In 2013, the ''Broken Movie'' was uploaded to the official NIN Vimeo account, but was promptly removed by Vimeo. It is currently available to download from archive.org.[https://archive.org/details/NineInchNails-Broken]