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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.

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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

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Nov 26, 2016 · djsumdog on Fidel Castro has died
They are less isolated than you think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTno8D-b2E

Aug 19, 2016 · placeybordeaux on The Cuban CDN
I'd recommend watching the video that is linked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTTno8D-b2E

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.

Sep 24, 2015 · 5 points, 0 comments · submitted by sauere
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Sep 22, 2015 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by coherentpony
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