This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
Vox1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026
5.6M views · documentary · dated · Uploaded 2015-09-21
A Vox report on El Paquete Semanal, the weekly offline bundle of shows, music and news that is smuggled and sold in Cuba. It shows how people get media without internet access.
HN uses it as the standard example of sneakernet media distribution via hard drives.
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3 comments from Hacker News
I'd recommend watching the video that is linked: [VIDEO] It talks about the mechanics, largely it looks like someone in Miami is consistently collecting stuff until they get close to 1TB or a week has passed, then that 1TB is flown out to Havana and it's copied and passed around after that.
This is how people consume content in Cuba [VIDEO] If you like this story, I recommend this documentary: [LINK] (Chuck Norris vs Communism)
This is hard to read, but I think you're saying the Internet will see a shift to "Sneaker Net" like tactics where people torrent stuff, store it on HDDs, and just move those HDDs around? Like they do in Cuba: [VIDEO] For the most part, I agree.