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Good question actually. Your IP is released, but I've heard that when people ask the trackers for IPs, the trackers return purposely bad IPs that aren't doing the file-sharing. In that way I heard that a printer got caught for downloading porn in this professor's lab, yes it's pretty ridiculous.

What you are referring to is called "capping" where you limit, or "cap", your upload rate below your internet limit so the connection doesn't overload. If you have cable, this might seem to be a problem. With cable, bandwidth is shared within several houses, so if every one of those houses is using ...