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Nobody is hiding their IP. Rather, if his client is initial seeding, then it is hiding the fact that it has a complete copy, so it will show up as a peer rather than a seed.
It is not possible to hide one's IP address. That would make communications impossible.
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^ That
Plus YIFY's swarm are often large--there may be a seed that you are simply not connected to (as your torrent client deliberately and sensibly limits the number of connections to avoid excessive overhead).
So imagine kjf was seeding, with low bandwidth, and I and another guy were connected to and downloading from him (I, with the first 60% of the file, and the other guy, with the last 60%; both of us with high speed connections). If you weren't connected to kjf (say you were running PeerBlock and the IP address kjf was using had been blocked several years ago) but were connected to both of us downloaders, you would complete your downloading, 100%, without ever seeing any seed.
It's not hiding, it's simply an aspect of the way BitTorrent works--in spite of what you will be told by from almost everyone you don't have to be connected to a seed to be able to download.
Grrrr.... What kind of "Kung-fu" is this ?!?!?! 
