If your own UWP server was setup to act as the 'tracker' (that is, the computer that keeps 'track' of how many people are downloading/uploading/transferring each file), then you'd absolutely have full statistics for downloads.
The only reason you wouldn't is if people decided to set up the torrent (the file, effectively) on another tracker - effectively, as if they volunteered to put the PDF on their own website for people to download. I think that'd be unlikely, though.
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