Only if you use a private tracker. Public ones always have seeders whose job it is to collect IP addresses. You'll still get that letter in the mail about pirating

Isn't going after torrent makers more important than random downloaders? By that logic shouldn't big music / movie companies be targeting private trackers? (Surely they have enough materials to pass the interview!)

Which is why there are so many VPN services out there. Or seedboxes if you are serious about this stuff.

…if you live under a regime controlled by big media business.

Or when Comcast is your ISP...