You can, in transmission for example you can just set the seed percentage to 0%....

		voidUpdate 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing... You can, in transmission for example you can just set the seed percentage to 0%. I recognise that this makes me a bad torrenter, but I've been told in the past that my ISP wont be too happy about me seeding, and they already do something screwy to torrents I access through the surface web, so I'm just playing it safe

I think your client may still be sharing IP addresses, not sure about the legality of that