Is typing a proxy IP and port enough to protect your IP on a BitTorrent client?

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I use uTorrent and want to protect myself from being tracked or identified when downloading. I googled something like "torrent proxy" and found a site with a list of proxy IPs along with their respective ports and proxy types. I found a SOCKS5 proxy and typed in the IP and port into my connection preferences. Is this enough to hide myself, or is there something else I have to do?
Wanting to hide your identity isn't illegal.
 
I'm not sure about torrent proxy, but if you google peerblock this is fairly reliable for protecting you when down loading. the surest way to protect your identity is to save your download to a file, I believe utorrent does this automatically. then remove the download from utorrent. The problem with this is that how you get your downloads is when others are seeding the more seeds the faster the down load but removing the title from utorren means you are know longer seeding, I would just try peerblock,.Just remember to check that you have peerblock running before down loading.Remember that distributing copy right material to others by seeding is not legal.
 
If you are using ethernet, downloading via P2P is extremely traceable (they can track you by the port you're using). If you are using wireless, then they would not be able track you if you are using an ANONYMOUS proxy. Hope that helps.
 
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