Well, actually Trent Reznor is claiming that a “mysterious, shadowy group of subversives’ gave him the footage. Chin, chin, chinny…According to a posting on the NIN forum, Trent says: “The internet is full of surprises these days.  I was contacted by a mysterious, shadowy group of subversives who SOMEHOW managed to film a substantial amount (over 400 GB!) of raw, unedited HD footage from three separate complete shows of our Lights in the Sky tour. Security must have been lacking at these shows because the quality of the footage is excellent.”

“If any of you could find a link to that footage I’ll bet some enterprising fans could assemble something pretty cool.”

“Oh yeah, you didn’t hear this from me.”

The footage is also now available and features footage from NIN’s shows in Victoria, Portland and Sacramento.

In other NIN news, the band last month replaced drummer Josh Freese with Lostprophets Ilan Rubin and keyboard player Alessandro Cortini also left the fold. The band’s forthcoming Australian tour will be performed as a four-piece.