Cubans, like many of us, are happy in the usual ways with their packages (paquetes). The government may be puritanically Marxist, and packages may be illegal, but "no one is going to arrest you for buying El Paquete," according to a police official. Many thousands of packages are for sale on the island.
To understand why, you need to know that only 2% of Cubans have access to the Internet, yet they keep up on world cultures. About 50% of Cubans subscribe to an (illegal) package service, where a dealer comes by on a regular basis and rents them a hard drive (pacquete) to keep and download for 24 hours. On the hard drive will be a huge sampling of Internet programing that includes soap operas, sports, movies, travel shows, sit-coms, educational series, etc. As I understand it the packages contain little overtly political stuff and no porn (which is available in Cuba in other, even more illegal ways).
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