Bad Trip (2020/2021) early accidental release

In 2020 the Eric André comedy 'Bad Trip' was accidentally released on April 17 by Amazon. It was up long enough to be pirated but was then removed. A year later it recieved it's actual official release. The release year for Bad Trip on IMDB is 2021. So what's the policy with these exceptions? Does the first accidental release count as a release date? Or is the 2021 release the first one?

Source: https://variety.com/2020/film/news/michael-jordan-without-remose-october-1234587592/ see under 'Bad Trip' glitch

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An illegal/pirated/accidental leak shouldn't be considered a release since it was not an official release. This could be mentioned with a trivia entry (and I see it's already mentioned in trivia section: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9684220/trivia/?item=tr5121392) but it shouldn't be added as a release date.

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@mbmb But it actually was on Amazon, which is pretty official. Sure they removed it, but it was up there, legally, for a brief period.

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@capdeac It was a mistake by a third party without the consent of the production or the rights holders, that's why it's called a leak, it wouldn't be called a leak if it was official.

If the production company or filmmakers knowingly released it, like announced or marketed it and released it and then for some reason they regretted it and changed their minds and pulled it after a while, then yes I would say that would be a valid release because they wanted to release it and released it but later changed their minds and removed it.

But in this case, it was accidentally leaked by a third party. So that wouldn't be a valid release, looks like a mistake/glitch on Amazon's part due to COVID times, so a brief unintentional leak because of a glitch of a third party (which was quickly fixed but still pirated) wouldn't really be different than a hacker accessing their systems and stealing it and putting it online. That wouldn't be called a release either.

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