This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
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Media smugglers get Taylor Swift, Game of Thrones, and the New York Times to Cubans every week through an illegal network of runners. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In Cuba there is barely any internet. Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited. Publications are limited to the state-approved newspapers and magazines. This is the law. But, in typical Cuban fashion, the law doesn't stop a vast underground system of entertainment and news media distributors and consumers. "El Paquete Semanal" (The Weekly Package) is a weekly trove of digital content—everything from American movies to PDFs of Spanish newspapers—that is gathered, organized and transferred by a human web of runners and dealers to the entire country. It is a prodigious and profitable operation. I went behind the scenes in Havana to film how the Paquete works. Check out the video above to see how Cubans bypass censorship to access the media we take for granted. Read full post at http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9352095/netflix-cuba-paquete-internet Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

El Paquete Semanal (The Weekly Package) is something I’ve been interested in for a while and what got me into reading about other forms of sneakernet’ing. Figured I’d share this video in case someone hasn’t heard about it before

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  • odeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So you’re telling me there’s this Cuban institution where ordinary people co-operate to maintain a commons independently of the state, enjoy and retain locally stored data, and provide an affordable, accountable service to people? Pretty based to me. I hope it survives the obsolescence threat posed by better web access.

    • CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a Linus Tech Tips video that talks about it and they mention how it’s been cut back due to the availability of the Internet increasing