Artist Aram Bartholl (creator of CAPTCHA business cards) has embedded USB sticks in various walls, buildings and curbs accessible throughout New York City for Dead Drops: "an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space." (Flickr) [more inside]
posted by zarq on Nov 1, 2010 - 58 comments

"Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the player's computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted." via
posted by Plutor on Sep 23, 2009 - 105 comments

You convert it.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Sep 19, 2007 - 25 comments

Hiccups Archive.
posted by hama7 on Jul 19, 2007 - 17 comments

WinMX is back (kind of). It was such an unbelievably awesome file sharing program that its makers had to pull their peer caches after being served a cease and desist order in September 2005. Now it has been reincarnated as MXpie. Even better . . . it's not spyware or adware.
posted by augustweed on Jul 25, 2006 - 46 comments

FILE - A Collection of Unexpected Photography - "FILE Magazine publishes images that treat subjects in unexpected ways."
posted by dobbs on Oct 6, 2004 - 8 comments