5.6M views · Sep 21, 2015 · 7:02 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2026
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN uses it as the standard example of sneakernet media distribution via hard drives.
“I'd recommend watching the video that is linked”HN comment, 2016
“I'd recommend watching the video that is linked”
Explains how Cuba's weekly packet distributes media offline via flown-in drives
I'd recommend watching the video that is linked: this 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”
Shows how Cubans consume content without internet
This is how people consume content in Cuba this video If you like this story, I recommend this documentary: link (Chuck Norris vs Communism)
“Like they do in Cuba”
Example of HDD-based content distribution in Cuba
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: this video For the most part, I agree.
