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Well, given how torrents work, yes, because you have to.
When you're downloading, you know the IP of everyone you're downloading from, and they know yours because that's how the internet works.
If an anti-piracy corpo hops on the swarm, they'll be able to see the IPs from all the peers as well.
So, TLDR: yeah, public anything is stupid when simply knowing the swarm exists and being able to connect to it is sufficient to provide enough documentation for everyone involved to get screwed.