That's a bit of an insane analogy. Perhaps if they publish the my name instead? They don't even publish how to get that to my actual address. Instead the client

That's a bit of an insane analogy. Perhaps if they publish the my name instead? They don't even publish how to get that to my actual address. Instead the clients have to do the look it up in a phone book as they do in a DHT. An infohash is not exactly revealing metadata. Similar to publishing just your name and nothing else. Of course, it's still a pretty crazy stretch because a name reveals even more than the infohash does.