circletimessquare writes “The NyTimes has an aticle describing how students and others in Cuba have taken to passing around media on memory sticks, as this is the only way they have the ability to get around state-controlled media. Also driving this phenomenon is the fact that there are so few places to get on the Internet. In Old Havana there’s only one Internet cafe; getting on the internet there for an hour costs 1/3 of the average Cuban’s monthly wages. Local entrepreneurs get the memory sticks from European friends, since they are scarce to find in Cuba through normal channels, and high-priced.”
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