The Cuban CDN
Awesome article! Does anyone have any further information? A few things stick in my mind:<p>1. FTA: "You'd need to be downloading at over 11Mbps 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to get the equivalent of El Paquete"<p>2. The AV update is 4 days old, the offline copy of Revolico is 3 days old<p>3. The article as a whole implies that El Paquete Semanal is a regularly distributed, ~850GB weekly curated samizdata<p>Thus: what the fuck!? It'd take me <i>weeks</i> to assemble this kind of thing, especially given point #1 above. Sure, a lot of this stuff could be farmed out to scrapers/sickbeard/whatever, but this level of curation plus the quick turnaround plus the distribution (how many portable 1TB drives are circulating?!) plus the download speed requirements... Who is doing this, and how? There's clearly <i>some</i> really great high speed connections in Cuba. Are these guys backed (or at least tolerated) by the state or something?