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