I think many people (rightly) believe TPB is a honeypot.
As a leecher, whether TPB is a honeypot is irrelevant to you. Any adversary can get the same magnets somewhere else and monitor the swarm for all of your IPs anyway.
If TPB being a honeypot scares you about using it to find content, you shouldn't be using public torrents period.
Or private ones for that matter, since they collect some information from you to allow access.