The streaming video service announced today it was "delighted" to make its product available in Cuba. But with an estimated 5 of Cuba's 11 million people has true access to the world wide web. The White House described the cost of internet access in Cuba as "exorbitantly high" and said that telecommunications companies would be allowed to "establish the necessary...infrastructure" to expand telecom and internet services. "What Netflix is doing it is making something completely legal and possible before it's practically possible from a technical standpoint, which then puts the pressure on the Cuban government and the U.S. government to make this stuff happen technically," Henken said. But while few Cubans will be binge watching Orange Is The New Black via online streaming anytime soon, more are likely to access it the old-fashioned way - via downloaded copies, passed around between friends. "Cubans are extremely creative and inventive," Henken said, "I'm sure there are some people who are able to get access to this very quickly in Cuba, who will be able to rig something out and figure it out." And Netflix already has an old-school competitor in Havana: A bundle of the latest TV shows and movies is distributed through an informal network known as the "Weekly Packet," where USB drives are distributed and sold throughout the country packed with video for offline watching. "You can get almost anything now, except porn or politics," one purchaser told The Guardian last year. "You won't find the Miami Herald in the Weekly Packet. But if you want to be informed about the world, then you can be. There are no mysteries anymore."
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