Even if a torrent is free leech you must meet either the minimum seeding time of 7 days or the minimum ratio of 1:1.
***You will not be affected with a H&R if you stop an delete a torrent because you didn't fully download it. due to it being dead or other reasons. The H&R rules engages once you download 1024MB of the file. Once you have 1024MB of the download complete you are then considered a seeder and the rule goes into effect.
****You have up to three days at a time to disconnect from seeding without getting punishment. If you are disconnected (not seeding) for over 3 days and you have not met the seeding requirements you will get a warning by the system. Once you accumulate 3 active warnings you will be banned for 14 days. If you get a warning it will last 7 days. If you don't get another warning within that 7 days it will be cleared.