I agree. The sentence a few paragraphs in tells a very different story to the headline: IMDb told the team that if a movie is not set up with a production comp

I agree. The sentence a few paragraphs in tells a very different story to the headline: IMDb told the team that if a movie is not set up with a production company with a history of theatrically released movies, getting it listed at the early stages of development would not be possible The reasoning didn't have much to do with it being released via bitTorrent only.