1 HN user recommended this documentary1 month2016–2026score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN uses it as the standard example of sneakernet media distribution via hard drives.
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.
“I'd recommend watching the video that is linked” (HN, 2016)
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.
Explains how Cuba's weekly packet distributes media offline via flown-in drives
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.
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