Nine Inch Nails puts songs on file-sharing site

Nine Inch Nails has posted three songs from the band's new Year Zero album onto a file-sharing network based on the popular BitTorrent software, which has quickly become the most frequently used method of illegally sharing and downloading large files, especially music and movies. The tracks appeared on a Swedish torrent site called Pirate Bay, which bills itself as the world's largest BitTorrent tracker. The songs are available for fans to either listen to or remix. Nine Inch Nails has also hinted that the entire Year Zero album will soon be available on torrent networks.

Since leaking songs has been part of the marketing campaign for Year Zero, it seems likely that Nine Inch Nails put the three tracks on Pirate Bay with the cooperation of the group's record label.

Year Zero debuted at Number Two on the Billboard album chart last week, selling 187,000 copies in its first week of release. The group's previous effort, 2005's With Teeth, moved 272,000 copies.

The new CD's much-talked-about marketing campaign has involved cryptic voicemails and a maze of eerie web sites in addition to leaked music.

Nine Inch Nails will visit Australia and Japan next month. North American tour plans are still to be announced.
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