Rarer Ubuntu torrents - especially development releases and other *buntu torrents - have few or no seeds. Therefore one has to use the direct download instead to download them.

This could easily be solved with web seeds. The web seeds extensions (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Web_seeding) to BitTorrent allow the client to download from a web server, when there are no peers. This is supported in many clients, including Transmission.

Transmission is the default bittorrent client for Ubuntu. There is a little known feature that allows you to download a blocklist stopping you from connection to IP addresses of known organizations that would monitor your bittorrent activity. Many users don't know about this feature. When first starting transmission, they should be asked if they want to use it or not. The download process takes a little time, but in my opinion, (And according to studies of bittorrent monitoring) it is worth it.

It would also be nice if we could see a 0 to 100 percent complete bar while downloading the blocklist.

Please don't comment saying that the only people who would benefit from this are pirates. Privacy is always a major concern, and I would rather not have corporations monitoring me, regardless of what I am downloading. As the makers of Ubuntu, Canonical should support privacy.

Downloading that rare torrent that you would like to see survive? Right now you've basically got two options:

1.) Keep everything in your download directory and enjoy the mess.

2.) Stop seeding your files and organize everything, and if you remember / do some more work you might be able to start seeding them again.

3.) Be a perfect human and always choose the right place to download the torrent.

These aren't horrible options, but can't we do better? If I download an audio torrent I don't select my ~/Music folder because as the file is downloading and incomplete Rhythmbox will be scanning corrupt files, which it actually does pretty well with, but I would prefer to keep the file in my download directory until it's complete.

Download Complete, but my ratio poor. I would like to seed back to at least 1.0, but I'd also like to hear the audio I just downloaded.

We've got these spiffy things called inodes (not related to Apple!) and this great thing called inotify to tell us whenever a file has been moved - plus I'm sure you folks and the developers have all kinds of great ideas.

Transmission could have a time remaining info - this would help a lot