This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify - all without the internet
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- čas přidán 20. 09. 2015
- 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.
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Am I the only one who's worried about Dany now?
+Michelle Kopp The authorities would never see this video now would they ;)
+Hamish Batten yes they would. You think they don't have Internet access if the common people can get it?
+Michelle Kopp That's probably not the real Dany, the client he supposedly talked with for an hour is that guy acting as him. Speculating of course, but it seems shady enough to be possible.
+Michelle Kopp And how sketchy was it when he just says point blank "Dany must have a fake satellite in a hidden water tower on his roof....." Even how the reporter said it sounded fucked up like he was telling on him...
+Michelle Kopp too late, Dany is now a Weekly Package, in plastic bags...
*Not all heroes wear capes*
They are thieves and need to spill blood to be free like we have.
No need for racist name calling. Point being that people have fought and died for freedom and that's a super high price to pay,the ultimate price. If people are oppressed, they need to fight for freedom unfortunately..still.
Not all capes wear heroes :v
Axel Espinal True dat in fact I would say most if not all dont
Not all heroes wear shirts* lol
Now Netflix will make a series based on this called " El paquete"
I'll pay for that
Sounds like a plan.
Would LOVE to watch it
Franco Lopez 😭😭😭😂
@@GoggleDumb Yea.... do u get it
So they just downloaded the internet
😂😂
😂
Ender Viper its impossible to download something in which data changes every few milliseconds
Well yes most of it PS: this is a half-life:alyx reference
@@hariranormal5584 woooosh
Mexico: drug cartel
Cuba: movie cartel
Oh boy i can tell you know little bout cuba
Steve White America, manipulation
We need to build a wall around Cuba
And make them pay for it
r/cyberpunk
It is extremely irresponsible to show these cubans' faces. If they face any consequence, you know who's fault it is.
Jimena Salas Ugarte theirs because they consented to having their face on the video
It doesn't matter, Cuba doesn't censor the internet but due to the embargo placed on Cuba, there is no internet infastructure for many of these people to receive the information. What they're doing technically isn't illegal if the contenet wasn't pirated, so they can't really be arrested especially when the whole entire national would be affected so I don't think anyone would want to do that.
I think it's very irresponsible of VOX to publish their identities and faces as is. VOX is naive if they don't think the Cuban government can't make its citizens disappear in thin air like the US does.
They were being very careful when answering questions. The answers given by the Cubans were thought out to avoid any form of disrespect to their dictator. In the first question when Vox asked the "why" question the guy said, " I don't know it's just the way it is." Very cautious when answering I could immediately tell.
the dany pacquette guy even put up a castro picture and the cameraman put it on tape to show hes loyal
Aah, I still remember the days when Internet was Overpriced in India, we also had that kind of network but in smaller scale.
There's always that one guy who had Wifi and he used to be the distributor. 😂
Huge Size Android games like GTA, Gangstar, Modern Warfare, etc were also in high demand.
JIO has changed everything.
@@PrithiDeb true I vividly remember giving around 350 for 1 gb for a month
The network is still there:)
it's true for most for the asian countrys ,i'am from sri lanka when i am in grade 6,7 thiers internet booths in many towns with extremely slow internet .and in the school theirs always older students how has contacts with some guy with all connection and games and films.
@@rajatshukla2605 it is really not,metro and mid tier cities have very good broadband these days,from 50 mbps to like even 1 Gbps for a decent price
Then there is Jio lol
Vox: So what you watching?
Danny's gf: Just a documentary about how this farmer almost died by a tractor
Vox: *oh*
Ha ho
The one who made the subtitles in English: I quit.
Nobody in Cuba can see this youtube video...
tetekofa youd be surprised bro
tetekofa I think Dany put it on the weekly TB of data
tetekofa
Apparently in some places they have wifi hotspots where you can connect to the internet, so unless CZcams is blocked they CAN see this...
(correct me if I'm wrong)
No some, by now you have IP allocations that aren't Government own ;)....meaning traffic is starting to flow to that region. Columbus Networks I think has a colo "undisclosed" there.
Reasonable there are some spots for wifi. You can stream video there and browse the web etc. the only thing you can't do is downloading apps. So yes Cubans can watch this video😄
I wonder if this video will be put on their weekly hard drive
Christopher Samaan if it did, then everyone involved would get arrested
@Hugo you think the only way the Cuban government would see this program is through the black market?? LOL
Hugo Lovén Here's how it works. The authorities are paid to look the other way.
Chris Bautista live in Cuba and no. The authorities tolerate it as long as there's nothing too political.
Christopher Samaan sisisis si salió el video
Not me being a Cuban and Remembering all the old times when I rented the "Paquete" every week just to see my favorite CZcamsr's videos 😭✋🏻
Don't they still using el paquete?
@@yusepe1067 Of Course it is still going... I'm sure of it
Where do you live now?
U still live in Cuba ?
@@SuperPrem Now I Live in US
4:45 Not all heroes wear capes, they sometimes wear board shorts...
Liked just because of the quote, not bcause of his actions
I would choose board shorts everyday against jeans
@@dustinalecxander8647 I mean who wouldn't?
All this time i took pirate bay for granted
kat.cr is better
blocked here in the UK.
+CasMullac There's proxies, you know right?
blocked? awh bless you, just type proxy after it in google.
aaaand it's gone
I can't believe el paquete made it all the way to vox channel. As Cuban, I find this amusing, but the struggle is real. And no, they won't get in any trouble. I mean the Cuban gov already know all these, but they won't hunt down people that share some vids and movies. Also the machinery behind it, is too big to be stop. Keep up the work VOX but if you ever discuss political topics, than pls protect your sources
yeah, as cuban is kinda funny to see an american speaking about the "paquete " jajajaja
Hey, I'm curious, in this video they say they don't access to internet on Cuba... So are you writing on another country? Are there cubans who use VPN? Or some can afford internet costs? I'd just like to know how's internet service right there
@@ginandromeda1618 we have "internet" at a very low speed and very, and I mean very, high costs, and yes, i'm on Cuba
@@Taurineg The same way you are, kind of
@@Taurineg Yeah, they do ban some sites. But it's just a few ones and they are about politics and stuff like that
Cubans are known for being SUPER resourcefull people, who can get around any challenge they might have to face, all because of their restrictions on resources available etc... Never fail to impress me... I had a cuban music teacher (Don Julio Peraza) who sadly passed away and really influenced who i am today, he was always incredibly happy (i always remember him with a smile on his face) and knew how to teach music and drums like no other teacher i have had.
Indeed we are...
Peaceful people, yeah, they have no option. Greetings from Venezuela.
This guy is responsible for entertaining and entire nation
.
Respect+
u misspelled "brainwashing"
@@MaloureTV nope pure respect
it's not about quantity it's about quality, that's why i like this channel.
great job.
Unlike watchmojo who are running out of ideas because the upload like 6 videos every day. But in all seriousness this channel is amazing and I'm glad to have subscribed to it.
Watchmojo's community creates all the ideas for the lists.
CinemaPigeon I know it's just they put out content too quick for my taste.
***** Fair enough.
+kunal shrivastava I blame youtube for that. They reward quantity of videos over everything.
I hope they get their healthful supply of memes
ludlowudus lol o o f
Yes! We do! I am cuban. And we do not get memes. We get youtubers. I mean. It is almost the same
I'm 500th liker
I can sauce my hard drive full 😂
We get pewdiepie and some others popular youtubers
Breaking bad CUBA version:
"Come on Jesse, we need to copy this documentary"
You want to redistribute movies Mr. White?
Underrated comment
@@SpongeBobbin34 *Señor Blanco
hahaha
Me, who pirates everything even free things:you know, I'm something of a Cuban myself
@@ash-gr3gr weak I pirate most of the modern films
@@PirateCat822 plebs... I pirate games directly from Steam and playing them online without paying a cent!
@@puffin20 How, plz teach
@@nel4102 AFAIK most of the time, pirated game can either go online with:
• fellow pirates,
• or in some cases, legit users (among us?)
Y'all weak I pirate evrythang
When the government doesn't give you access to the internet so you created yourself another net
"Improvise, Adapt, Overcome"
People always find a way ~
Image the life without internet, so boring, now we know anything, use VPN you can read CNN,... inside Vietnam
Actually, its the us putting an embargo on cuba that restrain cubans from using the internet. There wont be any infrastructures if the company that create them wont be able to trade with the us afterward.
David Le people have been without internet for thousands of years, and life wasn’t boring for them. It’s just that we’ve become too dependent on the internet. So much that it interferes with our daily lives. People don’t interact (in person) as much as they used to anymore.
Then get arrested because vox showed your faces.
At least they’re not killing each other for a new episode of Stranger Things
Im pretty sure no one other than americans like stranger things lol
Bruh I'm an Indian.. and we love Stranger Things !
@@DarthVader-fr8xl me too bro.
I’m cuban and I love strangers thing I finished the 3 seasons
tu tu no you’re wrong and I’m right
This is actually more efficient than paying a suscription for every new "streaming" rebranded cable TV service.
Yeh, you even get the latest games for 3 pesos only, what a steal
check the persian website and get them for free
its ilegally pirated
@@ruripapi so?
@@IAm-zo1bo clearly ilegal piracy is wrong, unlike in the us with obviously legal piracy, duh
In USA : Sup mane, u got the weed ?
In cuba : Amigo, you bring the Endgame right ?
Wait lemme say the second part in spanish with some cuban slang(im half cuban but from the us so there might be spelling mistakes)
Que vola acere, trajiste "Endgame" verdad
In Spanish, it will be “¿Amigo, tu tiene el Endgame bueno?”
In Indonesia: kuy punya endgame ga
@@yeno6492 awowkwwowk Nongol tuyul Entah dari mana.
@@yeno6492 in urdu: bhai kia tum "endgame" lai
It makes me sad people are working so hard to get the things I usually take for granted. Gotta learn to appreciate things more.
James Mendoza that is very true
You will either come to appreciate having things archived locally or you will learn the hard way why it is necessary. Had a few of my absolute famous performances taken off CZcams, never again will I make the mistake of leaving everything up to huge corporations.
wow such hard work, get an hd into a shop and get a weeks worth of content for cheap meanwhile you guys have to pay fees for everything. even to play online
VOX just Snitched on Cubas Snowden
There's a difference from someone who brings media than someone who unraveled many classified american documents.
Both are heroes
But only one is man enough to face the consequences, if he stayed he would be out of the jail in no time. Although, he makes a lot of money now, so who cares.
if the cuban government cared enough they would have jailed him long ago, they probably already knew who was the guy behind this but just figured if they jailed him there would be an un necessary uproar of the people
steiN snowden isnt a coward, he legit cant leave the country, hes trapped there
"All businesses need to have competition. Without it, we would stop progressing."
This guy gets what the leaders in his country haven't been able to understand for 60 years.
they don't have internet infrastructure because of the US embargo which the entire world opposes...
0:48 they watch Badlapur in Cuba ? 😮
Axom r kor hoi apuni ?
@@plakhya ohh....kor ba hoi teu
@@jyotiradityadeka2905 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@jyotiradityadeka2905 bohut subscribers ase.. Moi ene kunuba buli bhabi reply disilu 😂
@@plakhya takei
This series made me really respect Cubans. Seems like they're all straight hustlers. Working a 2nd underground job in order to live, have their own local underground internet they built themselves, always finding a way to work around the system. Necessity is the mother of invention.
+IntensePeppers Everyone to that is sanctioned and blockaded by the evil empire (USA) find ways to survive to various degrees the human rights violation that the US puts them through.
'All businesses need to have competition. Without it we would stop progressing. I must have competition to push me to be better every week.'
This 'lazy college college sophomore'-looking media pirate understands capitalism better than 90% of American corporations.
+MightyMighty Spandaniel Yes. You don't subsidize the massive over-performers because then they won't compete with each other but instead rely on bailouts and constant public funding. You subsidize certain under-performers that you need to encourage (say for a nation to compete with another nation) and socialize only what is necessary for basic living (a post that may shift depending on societal needs, but still), so people can then have the structure to create things that then compete. You don't stamp on the poor, suck dry the middle, and constantly reward the rich - unless you want oligarchy.
+MightyMighty Spandaniel That's probably the most damaging thing said or done in the interview. At least from the perspective of the Cuban government.
I don't see oil and gas investing in renewable energy.
A company that won't invest in the future of its industry is a company willing itself into being obsolete.
Ragnarok Sora that's because they're part of the 90%
"When people want information, they're gonna find a way to get it"
Great moral.
Unless if you're Chinese or North Korean.
@@TheMaster4534 they can also get information by vpn or by ussing stolen phone😂😂😂
@@TheMaster4534 you are pretty ignorant.
Even just 9 years ago in India, fast Internet was hard to come by. We had no paid streaming services locally available simply for the lack of fast enough Internet to run them. I remember being in 11th grade and having a 40gb monthly limit on my Internet connection with an average speed for 4Mbps. My friends were in a similar situation so I realized that a lot of us could benefit from some organization. We compiled out movie, show, music, video game lists for anyone to access and identify the content they wanted and we would exchange it in school. Saved us a lot of data we would have otherwise spent downloading something someone already had. Good Times.
it's kickass torrents without the internet lool.
Anonymus god bless piracy
ah united we stand
Anonymus rip kat
Daniel Lloyd pirate bay just isn't as good
Anonymus I feel you man :(
MG_Anon Kat was the best it will be missed dearly
Imagine how much money they made redistributing endgame....
Probably not that much because over there they haven't been in on the Marvel universe for the past 60 years like we have here
@@RyanMarc12 Actually yeah people there have been illegally trading and selling Marvel and DC comics for decades
Keepo when I was there visiting my family I got endgame and it cost me 10 pesos because it was great quality and it was a long movie (movies usually cost like 1 or 2 pesos ) so yes they did make a lot of money from endgame
@@RyanMarc12 hey i am from India and a lot of people in India don't know marvel since 60 years including me and many others MCU fans but i love endgame and i am a big fan of MCU even though i never read any marvel comics
It’s already included in the package you don’t get charged for specific movies it’s all in one, you pay the same, I’m Cuban btw
Me: got 5000+ channels on my fire stick to go through this year
Cubans: got a new file of the entire internet on my hard drive to go through this week
I grew up believing piracy was the standard until i could afford subscription with my own money
Don't do it if you don't want to
I hope y'all didn't get these people arrested.
+Jeffrey Craven They don't live in the US so western media corporations cant get to them = they are safe.
There's no way the government don't know about this already. They know and just tolerated it.
i think they wont get into troubles becouse cuba gouverment don't have internet
@@robert-cs1dv they have internet, just its really slow and i don't think their government even goes on CZcams and checks videos like these
Rixasum they prolly have 200mbps what you chatting
why weren't their identities concealed?
There is no need for that in Cuba (at least for this type of things), because there is always "someone who knows someone" which is the way this type of business work down there. My brother for instance use to do this (until someone stole his computer) :-(
That sounds about right, we need to think, that out of the situation they have (no internet, cable tv, etc.) everybody, including government officials enjoy international tv as much as the next person :-) and possibly that is why is tolerated, 'cause they are also consumers of the paquete
If the officials are using The Paquete, they're not going to crack down on it.
It's not other cubans they should be concealed from, its the companies they are taking content from....
+Wilder Mendez Question... ¿So if the government Officials enjoy using The Paquete, why dont they permit civilians have Internet,cable etc the way they wont have to watch what can tv illigal?
This was how it was done in India too almost 10 years back. This is nostalgia!
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What you are referring to? I don't remember anything as such.
nhaa you are wrong we always has the internet and broadcasting channels. you have the wrong info.
Multi-billion dollars media companies: I cannot recover from this.
the moment you realize cuba went mirrors edge
daaaamn! what a long ass name you've got.
My roommate told me in Mexico it is common to combine your mother and fathers name into a last name so I think that is the case here lol
Tara Doherty it is very creative, at least one parent already had a double barreled name and then you add the mother's too.they better not be in a hurry..
In latin america almost everyone has 1 first Name, 1 Middle Name and 2 last names. Usually when asked, you only say your first name and your father's side last name, but In government and bank related stuff, or just important stuff in general. you're required to say your whole name.
Raul Rodriguez i thought of this when our new workmate started yesterday. He is hondureño. His first name is a double barreled name and he has 3 more names. all of them are on his work e-mail. its along the lines Hector-mario de Peseta de dinero dias de noches ( for example ). I can already see him tell people that he'll send them e-mails first lol!.
Europeans: *can't watch memes because Article 13's passed*
Cubans: First time?
Next up Europe will have meme trafickers xD
@@flashback4588 well VPN services kinda work so.... yea :D
@Mr Lopes NordVPN and TunnelBear incoming!!!
@@UnspeakableNightmare who lied to u lol
@@user-bp6jx9ef2t lol. who lied to YOU
The same happens here in Kenya. Unlike the centralized Cuban system, everybody has access to USA content without paying a cent to anybody. But let's be real... Most of the USA distribution companies don't view Third World countries as viable markets. Until then, it's impossible to fight this 'economy.'
The man behind this is a hero, to keep people's humanity for entertainment
Is it just me??? but when he made the statement that "he looked more like a lazy college sophomore than the king pin of a national.." and "... After 5 minutes sitting in his office... I quickly gained respect." It just irked me when he said that. Why would you not have respect for someone trying to bring media to his people? This man could go to jail or worse. His assumptions just rubbed me the wrong way.
Bringing media doesn't necessarily make him a good person. It's a lucrative business venture, and while this guy may be an exception, most people who can get into this are primarily interested in the money. The aren't necessarily hard working clean people.
the commentator sounds very condescending
think of it like this, the guy had to go through multiple hoops going from guy to guy that lead to a kid that opened the gate to the king pins inner lair, this sounds like a build up to a mafia movie so his expectation probably was somthing more along the lines of a smokey room with a naked lady in each arm with cash and coke on the table
aint he scared of showing his face?
meh. cuba started semi-censored public internet cafés 1.5 years ago. So yeah, although it is technically illegal, the Cuban Governement will have to roll with it, as part of the Cuba Deal
Broads in Africa communist govts are so inefficient that they will never be able to catch them
Aymeric de Theux Until Trump cancels it
Daniel Peace Cuba is not in Africa...
+qwertpoiuy430 "Broads in Africa" is the commenter's name lol
0:48. Did I just see 'Badlapur' in there? Bollywood and Cuba. Thats news to me ha!
ABCD2 was also there
Even I got surprised by that😂😂
Yes
Badlapur was really good, I’m happy after all these risks they take they at least distributed good Indian content and not happy new year
i know right
USB Drives would be the last thing I would think about when thinking about dealing in Cuba
One thing that many people need to understand:
If the Cuban government did not wish for this distribution system to exist, it would not be as developed as it is today. Simple fact.
The truth of the matter is that the weekly package is perused by lower government officials as well as the citizenry. Whether the higher officials are capable of simply viewing the internet and television without barriers is up for debate, but it is likely that they too depend on the package for many things.
After all, the meticulous collection and dissemination of information is central to Cuba, it's almost a hidden national pride and the thing that has kept Cuba afloat since, in essence, being closed off to the world.
Think of the most common documents that are referred back to here in the United States - birth certificates, wedding certificates, divorces, bills of health and so on; now imagine them packed with double the information, extending back years upon years, with loops and loops of supplemental information.
Lives and families are recorded meticulously and rendered in multiple copies when necessary. The collection and dissemination of information is ingrained. Attacking any form of that pride would trigger an outcry that would, frankly, be suicidal for the government. So, why bother having an open witch-hunt for the weekly package? It's more beneficial intact than dismantled.
I want 4k quality paquetes yo
At 240 FPS
You think these people have 240hz monitors? lol
I want your paquete
@Sean-Paul Higgins You think we are being serious ?
Of course not.
Cuban police : "thanks for the information, we'll go get them"
government tolerates it 🤷♂️
This is totally something I would do myself if I was Cuban. I already sell IPTV myself & have a pretty good local empire.
It would be so much fun running content around like this on the black market, I can already imagine plugging like 6 hard drives into my SATA ports & loading them all up then sending them out to the distributors.
i want to deeply thank you for this video . I am a Cuban-American born in Cuba and moved to the USA when i was 14 , i do not agree with the government but i do thank Fidel Castro for bringing free education and healthcare , all my family graduated from universities and are very educated. I have never seen so much ideas and innovation in any country but Cuba , the things that the Cuban people do to survive and to keep them moving with so little resources and technology is amazing , USA has the longest embargo in history on the Cuban people , yet the Cuban people still have cars from the 40's and 50's , the people themself fix their cars and create the parts for this cars all by themself , i know this because my father still lives in Cuba and i visited the country last summer after 8 years , i could not help but cry to see a country stuck on time .Their education system was once really great , one of the highest rate in literacy but now is failing since a taxi driver makes more than a doctor as its demonstrated in this video , so the young generation are no longer interested in education as much as it used to be , its like going backwards. I hope one day the embargo is removed and the Castro regime falls . Thank you everybody for reading , have a nice day .
Pues ahora Fidel murió y Raúl dió un paso al costado, Cuba sigue la senda del socialismo y se ha unido a la tendencia de abandonar el Dolar, comerciar con Oriente y adoptar el socialismo de mercado, se vienen buenos tiempos para la Isla, esperemos que NUNCA VUELVA EL CAPITALISMO a Cuba, sería lo peor para los Cubanos
Angry Mob of Midgets En Mexico tenemos un gobierno ratero quienes se alian con los empresarios y narcos mientras la mayoria de la piblacion vive en pobreza. el socialismo cubano no es perfecto para nada pero es mas preferible a lo que se vive en Mexico.
@@AlexCab_49 No mames, estás bien pendejo; gran parte de la población de México tiene internet, eso no es pobreza, no al nivel de cuba; aquí es inimaginable que un taxista gane más que un médico, mientras allá es normal; aquí si te esfuerzas (tienes que esforzarte mucho) puedes mejorar tu situación, allá no, pues esa es la base de esos sistemas; ¿preferible? El simple hecho de que tengas internet para comentar no seria posible si vivieras en cuba, que su falta de internet no es culpa del embargo, el mismo gobierno de cuba lo impuso así.
Además gran parte de la pobreza es por la población pendeja y sin educación, vivo allí y de solo escuchar el tipo de conversaciones de la combi te da una idea de porque estamos como estamos (mi hijo que con solo la secundaria terminada se fuga de punta a estados unidos y ahora está en la cárcel volverá a México como emisario de Dios; solo una caguama, es muy poco (dicho por una señora); nose porque los miran raro si solo han tomado un poco (dicho por la mujer con una hija a los albañiles que apenas se abrió la puerta de la combi se olió el alcohol y estaban incomodando a todos con su actitud); la tirolesa no está en el viaje, que mal, yo no vengo a la escuela a estudiar yo vengo a hacer desmadre ( estudiantes probablemente de turismo, tienen becas para viajar a hacer lo que sea que hacen los de turismo)
@@LuisEnriquecrack Enserio piensas que la pobreza biene del pensamiento del individuo? Tu pensamiento me recuerda de una mujer que tenia talvez 50 años y mientras esperabamos el autobus me decia igual que usted de que el pensamiento nos mantiene pobres. Pero vi que ella tenia pensamiento de un dia empezar un negocio y vi la ironia. Hablas de que mayoria de Mexicanos tienen internet? Y que? Apoco eso mejora la vida? Apoco paga la renta y los biles? No! La internet no significa nada y la poblacion no es pobre por ser "pendeja" como tu lo dices. La pobreza ya a existido por mucho tiempo y a sido empeorado por la fase neoliberal del capitalismo en Mexico desde los año 80. Claro que uno puede hacer cosas para mejorar su vida como ir a estudiar. Pero el estudio no es accessible a todos por circunstanias. La revolucion cubana hizo mas accesible la educacion universitaria a su poblacion. Cuba tiene la indice de desarollo humano mas alto que 70% de America Latina incluyendo a Mexico. Ahorita la situacion economica de Cuba no esta bien por el embargo que apenas se habia sacado en el 16 y la disolucion de la urss causando que la gente se salga de Cuba. En los años 60 y 70 la mayoria de los cubanos que se largaron fueron ricos o hacienderos. El socialismo tiene de meta a poner las empresas en manos publicas y no en manos privadas quenes usan el esfuerzo laboral para enrequizarse. Ponte a leer sobre el socialismo y sabras que no se trata de que todos seamos completamente igual ni que el gobierno nos de cosas gratis.
@@AlexCab_49 si tienes dinero para pagar el internet, y los dispositivos con los que lo usas, no eres pobre; con ese dinero de base y menos ya es suficiente para mandar a tus hijos a estudiar; quizás es comunidades bien pobres si afecte, pero en su mayoría, la pobreza está en el pensamiento, no te pido que pongas un negocio, te pido que no estés embarazada ( o hallas embarazado) a alguien a los 16 años. Con una carrera universitaria de escuela pública puedes sacar muy adelante tu situación, no necesitas entrar en una carrera cara como medicina para tener dinero (un físico, o un programador hasta pueden ganar más que un médico y lo único necesario para esas carreras es estudiar); tu comentario parece sacado de alguien que no ha vivido en México toda su vida o ha vivido en México como parte del medrioque promedio porque gran parte de la población es medrioque, por algo badabun es el canal de CZcams más grande de México; así que si, en gran parte la pobreza viene del pensamiento del individuo, existe gente pobre que de verdad no puede salir adelante, si, pero no son la mayoría de los pobres; las universidades públicas muchas veces son mejores que las privadas, la UNAM es pública y es la mejor del país, y una de las mejores de Latinoamérica; si la universidad donde estudiaste no es tan buena, estudia una maestría, que hay becas que te la pagan al 100 por ciento y de paso te dan para comer y vivir; tú no puedes esperar que el gobierno te de todo, si eso pasa todo se va abajo, hay que esforzarse, y formas de hacerlo, existen.
I wonder who's in charge of the porn content smuggling
+AsherFischell LOL Thanks bro, made my evening.
+AsherFischell lmaooo
+AsherFischell I don't get it
+Goldboy Jr "Panocha" is a hispanic slang word for vagina. The direct traduction is pussy.
+Eric P. Alvaro Asking for a friend, of course ;)
Cuban's are very creative people!
Love then and respect.
Hey Vox! Thanks for showing these interesting topics to viewers, but yes i do agree with some comments here that you should protect your sources. It doesnt matter if the govt already knows about them but you should still protect them.
Respect for the monster pc hes running
Edison Zhang im pretty sire all this work cant be done by a xbox one or a ps4 xD
Yeah but its still cool...
Stoned Savage no actually consoles barely have processing power but the only reason why they can output game in high quality is the software that literally pushes the hardware extra hard
Edison Zhang
The guy is probably in a Cuban prison now, after showing his face the Cuban government probably came after him and his pretty computer is now being used by some corrupt Cuban politicians son or daughter. I don't know why the guy would show his face when he knows that what he is doing is highly illegal, unless the documentary makers lied to him and told him they're gone blurr out his face but they didn't. The guy is probably rotting in some Cuban prison now.
lol that aint a monster kid.
I remember when we had something similar to this in Romania when I was a kid in the late 90's
Nu eram născut atunci, povesteşte-mi şi mie te rog.
Before the internet we copied computer games and programs in person, and anime on VHS. If there's a demand, people will find a way to supply.
Amarati...
most people on this site don't understand that the internet didn't always exist. I was born in 2001 clutching a router in my hands, so
wasn't that during the communist time?
It's just the same here in the Philippines but not that big of a scale, there's tons of people downloading content and basically just distributes it everywhere as long as you know people.
Live in Cuba is hard am from Cuba and I love cuba 🇨🇺
5:48 when someone from a country that doesn't have internet, has a better computer than you.
Smokaa xD
True for many people but not mine 😂
After all just imagine the memory needed for this
Looks like 12 or 16gb of ram a gtx 1050 ti and some sata card to have more hard drives
Mr Rhody You obviously have no idea what you’re talking about.
wont this video get them in trouble?
Yes, they might get in trouble but they do it to survive, just like any other business in Cuba. They have no choice
Carla Contessi Sarmiento he ment the video showing their face dumbass
Carla Contessi Sarmiento its not to survive
oh yes it is. And I know why I'm telling you that. Once needs to live it to understand.
Are you a pendejo or what? that is not for survive, and they will not get any trouble with the government, Cuba is not USA, no one go to prison for that kind of stuff
It’s sad how we don’t have internet, I’m Cuban but I live in New York, when I first went there, I was shocked at this, it’s also incredibly hard to be able to travel and it’s not easy for them. I’d know because family wouldn’t be able to come, the process is amazing and I’m thankful that I can do all of this here in the U.S.
Once when I was in Cuba as a kid, they had a showing of the first transformers movie with Megan fox before it even came to theatres. Good quality and everything too on a big projector
This type of smuggling happens in North Korea too. At morning the citizens just listen to political agendas in TV that is run by state,but they have TV and DVD players,I went to the house of a physics teacher in Pyongyang that was friend of my tour guide,he told me that there is a network which spreads DVD's of Hollywood and Chinese, Japanese ,South Korean,Russian movies and documentaries which they get from Chinese and Russian market and they spread it all around North Korea,but when they get caught,they are prosecuted in front of public. North Korea is very very strict and hell of a life over there.
We have a similar thing in the UK. In every single pub across the nation there will be someone who comes in and sells movies on data sticks or DVD's. You place your order and the guy will be back the next day if he doesn't have what you want there and then. Usually charge about £1 per movie.
+Subham Chatterjee Western propaganda bullshit.
ensteffo I know right, in North Korea they have technology decades ahead of time, they all live like kings and are superior to all.
In Indonesia, almost everywhere sells those bootlegs. Games, movies, ect. But we do have internet.
There's a law, but enforcement is a different story.
In India piracy is banned but the High courts and Supreme court's are extremely pro-poor so they have urged not to be too harsh against poor people. Majority of people in India who watch pirated movies and are very poor. You can get many movies for less than 10 cents from these dealers.
Why did you show his face?
+RenanzinhoSP i don't think it's actually him. it just seems silly that he would just let them show them his face. it's probably either an actor or he's reckless.
"I just talked to Dany on the phone. He said he does not fear more
attention. The Paquete is now a fixture of Cuban media consumption
habits, and Dany believes that if they cracked down on it there would be
a lot of outcry. It seems to be an open secret in Cuba that is
tolerated by the government."
-Vox
+RenanzinhoSP because cuba is less authoritarian than the USA to be honest
+joshzelmer Lived there. Can confirm.
+RenanzinhoSP Also, it is kind of a strike against Capitalism, in a way. No international media conglomerate is making a single cent from their music, shows, or films being distributed across Cuba.
"I must have competition to push me to be better. " nice
0:48 indian movie 'Badlapur' poster spotted .
On computer screen
As soon as I saw that I was looking for this comment
@Taz Pat 89 people who liked the comment do
@@anonymouswarlord102 well i liked the comment but i really dont care about it
@Taz Pat atleast every indian cares 🙏
overproud
I wonder if "El paquete semanal" includes any memes.
if not they lack
dank
we actually do have meme's on it before i moved i use to always read them
MrChow Since theres a South American meme channel, I think yes.
Dolan.Dark.WEB-DL.1080p.H264.CZcams.mp4
Yes we do. We listen to the same music and watch the same movies the rest of the world do. We even have Pewdiepie.
you guys just screwed this man up.....
Vox already answered to that months ago in another comment chain:
"I just talked to Dany on the phone. He said he does not fear more attention. The Paquete is now a fixture of Cuban media consumption habits, and Dany believes that if they cracked down on it there would be a lot of outcry. It seems to be an open secret in Cuba that is tolerated by the government. - Johnny"
Dany can only screw himself when he decides to run for Congress. lol
savage lolol
Nobody in Cuba can see this youtube video...
Baruc Villanueva nope cuban people can't watch this
Good job Cubans. As Chinese I have so much empathy for what they are doing.
When smuggled movies in Cuba are displayed in HD while your watching this on 480p: :0
480 p is pretty decent
literally
What if Cubans are hardcore Gucci Mane fans and well never know
They like pretty much every kind of music, domestic and foreign. And they do have access to it. But I don't if "Guchi Mane" would be high on their list. They have pretty good taste.
Erik Giovani We enjoy our own "hip-hop" and such. We listen to Bad Bunny and Arcangel which are one of the most known Latino rappers.
Erik Giovani There are younger generation of Cubans that in fact do like rap music
Reggaeton, and its own Cuban form, Cubaton, are incredibly popular, as are many gorgeous musical sounds and styles that have only remained alive and evolved through Cuba's existence.
While studying abroad, we visited an apartment in a poor area of old Soviet housing. The wife of the house made us a huge meal, and told us stories. The mood was somber. From the back room where her husband was, the bass of a Migos song shook the room. It was hard to be serious.
As a descended Cuban myself (My Father was forced to emigrate from the country or so I've been told) the regime in Cuba isn't as oppressive as everyone thinks and Cuba is by far one of the most well rounded countries despite the look of things. They're a very smart people and they wouldn't stand by and be oppressed again once they got out of the oppression the suffered before hand, much like we're beginning to see in southern America.
Honestly, it did not surprise me to know that the Government knew or would do nothing about this. They're beginning to Modernize and as such they are steadily becoming accepting of modern technology. Hell, Dany has a better looking set up then I do and by our standards he's living in a third world country. Cuba is a strange little untapped wonder of the world.
!!!!!! I don't think people realize that since the embargo act was lifted a year ago, Cuba probably has wifi spots and Internet now
Their economy is terrible due to communism and they're all driving cars from 50 years ago.
*STOP LYING*. You are not Cuban.
Whatever you say man, I didn't realize ones paternal nationality mattered so much.
Dee-Sii No Cuban would tell such lies unless he is a brainwashed fan of Fidel and the Revolution.
I can relate this with our situation. When the India put Kashmir into a military curfew and communication blackout for a year. People used to share the content to each other. and the times when there was no new data, same used to circulate back with different names.
I lived in Cuba for 7 years! El Paquete Semanal saved my life!
His setup is still better than mine 😐
ikr
ditto
That"s what I was gonna say!
el paquete (the package)
+Rod G. *weekly package
*information wants to be free*
But it is, at the cost of your privacy.
(Google)
That's not true. Information doesn't want to be free. Most people want most information to be free.
Martin Godinez is* of privacy.*
Information isn't at the cost of privacy. The cost of privacy comes from services that gather your information. Also, Google isn't the only company that gathers information. There are other companies that gather more information than Google.
MischievousMoo I understand your point.. I could go to the library and gather information without sacrificing much of my privacy. But in general, most of the information comes from the internet and some type of service. At this point your identity is worth billions. Throughout every application whether is taking a photo, video chat or even this chat in general ....algorithms will collect our information to eventually control whats soon-to-be believe as a human choice.
Sorry if I misspelled anything. :)
Hope Dany didn't get in trouble after this was made.
I heard they also distribute foreign movies & entertainment in USB drives in North Korea. For real. But I wonder if they have a network as sophisticated as this.
Nah, it doesn't reach international scales.
No one has computers so
NK is much worse there are few smugglers who does it but not at this scale because of harsh panishment by the state micro sd card is very famous there
nice job vox
+Youknowmyname except for putting his face onscreen and filming every location, helping shut this down from an international level (especially now with the embargo over). That sucks.
Exactly what I was saying just now.
+youmongrel Assuming that there are so many consumers, there will be a lot of outcry if they shut down this.
Yeah. That would be like shutting down the Internet over here I bet.
+Idiot Kitty Can there government watch CZcams though? BC I'm pretty sure vox said they don't get anything from the states.
to all dictators: there's always a way !
Yeah. I know there is some form of black market, but unlike other countries, you are literally risking your life
Zack Ch' do you know de wea?
Zack Ch' Well Cuba don't own dictators, they just have a Communist country. Dictatorship is North Korea Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
Cuba does have a dictator they just cleverly hide it by having one party elections where you can only pick the Castro family or the person they appoint. the only reason they have a person who is not from the Castro family right now is that Fidel Castro's son (who was meant to take over the country) committed suicide. Even though they technically have someone else as president, Raul Castro (Fidel Castro's brother and former president) is still calling the shots behind the curtain just like his brother did.
Watch "The greatest story never told." Only one thing has stood in the way of Zionism and that's Fascism.
i have three words for Cuba: Feels Bad Man
This is so amazing. They built there own internet. They remind me of the net teens from the early 90s.
me once net neutrality ends
It ended, nothing has changed. Sorry you believed those lies drummed up to scare you into voting to keep it.
@@johnhicks6595 so you're implying that keeping Net Neutrality was pointless
WTF M8 not pointless just not a big deal
@@survivorwtfrare6537 Yep
kuck it will once they turn into into a closed system where only big companies will dictate the prices and you’ll be forced to pay whatever price they say if you want it
It's sad to be in a world where a discussion about media distribution feels same to the one about drugs.😐
I love watching videos about my home country, sad to see what they are going through
People commenting if these guys face *CONSEQUENCES*
in the meantime,
Government :- where's this week's package?
Can't wait for the next Vice documentary.
Vox =/= Vice
Plank Hill Get a load of this guy over here.
That's my fetish.
+TomHasVideo Vox is doing what Vice does when they stop doing bullshit about skate and bad music. Both are great, because when Vice gets serious, they are awesome.
Gabriel Castro Great minds think alike.
watch dogs 3: Havana, Cuba
Lel
that would be pretty cool!
"You can watch this in full HD"
*Shows log in screen that tells the resolution is about 480p*
2:42
You can, but not in Cuba 😁
Its just the camera showing that
So many people in the US today in 2020 don't even have Windows 10 and here's a guy with an extremely limited internet connection in Cuba in 2015 with Windows 10. I applaud him.
If there is one thing i know about Cubanos, its that we are extremely ingenuitive
Karate Lebron good
+Karate Lebron Aye. If Cubans have mastered one thing it's the art of the hustle. Heaven knows that the whole island runs on the government's distribution people constantly 'losing' stuff that ends up on the private market and people are constantly shaking hands, dodging down alley-ways when the police or soldiers are cruising around, and performing mental gymnastics trying to figure out ways to make ends meet without having 'the man' breathing down their neck too hard. Everything in the country that isn't masonry is slapped together with odd US or Russian parts dating back to the atomic era or with contemporary, imported Chinese junk and all the scalpers here in Florida that bought up increasingly scarce supplies during the last hurricane and resold them at highly inflated prices first honed their craft on the island with the artificial scarcity that governmental resource controls so glibly encourages. One month all the rebar are gone. The next month its the mortar and the following month the sand. You don't see yogurt on store shelves for 6 months and the cooking oil disappears for twice that length of time. Most people have a side hustle and some folks have even 2 or 3. It's an environment where those with game in their hearts fill their bellies with food. Those that don't have it have only want to fill theirs with. The honest Cubans that make it here to The States take the one virtue that the Cuban government instilled into them - academic excellence - and do well for themselves in the skilled labor market. Otherwise they spend their days trying to hustle and cheat their fellow Cubans as well as any other sucker that crosses their path. Truly it's a wonder that Donald Trump doesn't have more Cuban people in his cabinet.
us [Cubanos]*
Very effective at murdering their own people and keeping their population poor under Marxism.
Karate Lebron I’m guessing you are using data from one of these guys
This brings back so many memories. It wasn't just movies and apps from the States, there were also from Japan (anime), Korea (soap operas) etc, and the latest video games in the market. Thanks to it I didn't die of boredom before living the country. I'm extremely thankful :)
This is incredible! What a great story. And excellent reporting.
This was the same in India a decade back. Met a lot of friends from different regions, different backgrounds but with same goal of sharing movies, shows and games.
You should of censored Danny's face, this puts him at risk and I am worried for his safety due to this documentary
I'm worried about something else.
Why is there an Indian movie at 0:48. It's called Badlapur and it's a Bollywood flick in Hindi language?
Wtf?
+kapil deshmukh Why would you be worried about that? I don't get it.
+Nazi Pikachu they prob lost the audio feed thus they cant tell e difference between the indians n them so they just kept watching
Do you really think the Communist are unaware of him? They tolerate him like the way they tolerate the blackmarket
I believe the Cuban Government's response is: "-Silence-, -Nervous Faces-". Unless the officials have internet access, they will want this, and either la Paquette is bribing them or the Officials themselves enjoy this and just keep a blind eye.
dany is the plug, really he's the plug
When I was younger I had to fiddle with an analogue TV that had 5 channels. 2 of them barely visible even after fiddling with an antenna for 20 min
they have windows 10 but no internet, meanwhile in richer countries people had 100 mbps internet with windows xp and vista computers. really tells how far their internet is behind compared to rest of technology.