Blog Torrent was a free

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

, open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 BitTorrent client

BitTorrent client

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer program developed by Bram Cohen and BitTorrent, Inc. used for uploading and downloading files via the BitTorrent protocol. BitTorrent was the first client written for the protocol. It is often nicknamed Mainline by developers denoting its official origins. Since version...

 and computer aimed at bloggers and other people with web hosting but little technical knowledge.

Blog Torrent did not achieve widespread popularity because of the increase in web hosting bandwidth and free video hosting services such as Google Video

Google Video

Google Videos is a video search engine, and formerly a free video sharing website, from Google Inc. Before removing user-uploaded content, the service allowed selected videos to be remotely embedded on other websites and provided the necessary HTML code alongside the media, similar to YouTube...

. However, for hosting extremely large video files or full CDs, it is still a simple and working option.

The blogtorrent.com website appears to have been taken offline around July 11, 2010. It is now replaced with a list of links to other BitTorrent clients.