This song is off of his 2004 self-titled album. Trent Reznor did not produce that, he had nothing to do with that record.

I was gonna jump all over the comment that Cash wrote this song, but apparently it's already been done, and is an old comment. but just for clarification:

Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) written in 1994. Released on Downward Spiral.
Johnny Cash covered in 2002. Released on American IV: The Man Comes Around.

Reznor is most definitely the author of this song, and Cash is not the first to cover it either.

Tori Amos frequently sang three or four lines of the song as an introduction to other songs during her Dew Drop Inn tour in 1996, most frequently "Caught a Lite Sneeze", and then again in 1998, as an improvisational bridge.
Breaking Benjamin
Sheryl Crow covered the Cash version on the television special Tribute to Johnny Cash.
Fightstar
Matthew Good, acoustic tour 2006.
Gregorian arranged the lyrics into a medieval Gregorian chant.
Kermit the Frog is featured in an unauthorized parody called "Sad Kermit".
Aaron Lewis of Staind covered the song during his 2007 Have Guitar, Will Travel solo acoustic tour.
Luna Amara
Jeff Martin
Montezuma's Revenge
Placebo, at the House of Blues in California in 2003.
Damien Rice, by inserting lyrics from the song into his live performances.
Underoath played it acoustic live
Sevendust did a cover as a tribute to Johnny Cash.
Howard Stern had his own version for his show, called "Private Hurt". He played the song while mixing in sound clips from his film Private Parts.
Westside Connection sampled the main riff for their song "The Gangsta The Killa and The Dope Dealer".

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Yes, I'm quite torn on the whole issue myself. My dilemma is that I want to support artists and performers who are talented, but I feel opposed to the studios who produce them. My opposition comes because of the business practices of the fat cats behind it. I won't go into them because I'm sure all of you know what I'll say. I wish there was an easier way that I could support those I see contributing and ignore those I see as parasites.

The world (and especially the movie industry) needs more people like Trent Reznor, Radiohead, and Courtney Love who are interested in taking a risk to make a system that works for (almost) everyone.

I have a very hard time believing that Trent Reznor had anything to do with the video.

Using media to fight media. Godspeed to Trent Reznor.

"God is dead, and no one cares"
Trent Reznor

I downloaded it pretty much the minute the download link arrived in my inbox. This is absolutely the best I have felt about buying an album EVER! Not only do I absolutely love the band and the music, I'm also in love with the way they are going about this; and the download is even DRM-free. To say that this is HUGE is an understatement -- this is changing everything. Apparently Trent Reznor and NIN are going the same way too.

You don't see it? I'll switch the video to one you can see clearer. When the cd is exposed to heat, the design changes due to the cd being covered in a material called thermachrome. So if you put the cd in your cd player and play it for a definite amount of time, (Some say around 40 seconds) the design changes into the white design you see in the latter part of the video. The design is binary and is actually a part of a meta game created by Trent Reznor and 42 Entertainment. More information on the meta game itself can be found here: http://www.echoingthesound.org/ and here: http://www.ninwiki.com/Main_Page
and 42 Entertainment's website can be found here: http://42entertainment.com/

Yes it was used in Natural Born Killers, and part of it is on the soundtrack, which was put together by Trent Reznor, and is possibly the best movie soundtrack ever.

Cash transmuted the rage of a young man into the regret of man at the end of his life. It gets even more power the more you know about Johnny Cash's life, and how he survived being an angry young man, survived being a drug addict and through the love of a great woman recovered and continued making music until he dropped.

Hopefully, at some point, Trent Reznor will perform this song in concert in the same manner as Cash - just to put an end to all the arguments over which version is better. Hopefully Reznor will live as long as Cash did, and will have the opportunity to have the same perspective gained.

david bowie + trent reznor = teh ownz0rz

Eternal Darkness was amazing, especially those sanity effects, the game would make it seem like you are losing your mind the game would make it look like the game would totally switch off, the sound might change, the volume might fall and so on.

I believe the AVP should be there, but definitely not the Jaguar version but the awesome 3D version developed later on by Rebellion. That game really perfectly captured the claustrophobic and pant filling atmosphere of the Alien movies. Best 3D engine for it's time too.

Doom 3, was mostly closet scary as mentioned, I mean by mid way it boiled down to things spawning right behind you. Personally the scary left the building the moment Trent Reznor walked off the project with all the audio he created, it's up online and my god does it add to the feel of the game. Remember what Trent Reznor did with the soundtrack to Quake!

Trent Reznor has said he can't sing this song anymore, Johny brought something so special to his rendition.

Awesome Daniel Maas NASA Mars Pathfinder Animation set to "Sunspots" by Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor)