hackertube.io

This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet

Vox · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Media, journalism & propagandaFree speech, censorship & civil libertiesNetworking & internet infrastructure

What it is

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 recommends it

HN uses it as the standard example of sneakernet media distribution via hard drives.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “I'd recommend watching the video that is linked”

    Explains how Cuba's weekly packet distributes media offline via flown-in drives

    placeybordeaux, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in “The Cuban CDN”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: cuba, sneakernet, el paquete, censorship

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