A few weeks ago I scooped Bonnie on the Tom Cruise Kills Oprah video by about twelve minutes -- and now the video's creators have confessed on waxy.org:

"My roommate and I originally created this file using content pirated from torrentspy.com (Star Wars Episode 3 and the Cruise interview on Oprah). We posted the file originally in threads on shacknews.com and rottentomatoes.com. After that point someone took it and turned it into a poorly-synced "ytmnd." [ ytmnd link ]

The video was created using Adobe Premiere for the shot and sound editing and Adobe After Effects 6.5 for the lightning using the "advanced lightning" feature.

I'd rather not give any more information as I have no interest in claiming "authorship" of this video and being a known pirate is not in my category of interests. In any case this information can be deduced easily enough anyway."

And as the guy who runs waxy.org says: "I can confirm that my source originally found it on Shacknews, so this makes sense."

So that's how it happened.