Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Terence Eden points out that censorship becomes more difficult as flash memory devices become smaller and gain greater capacity. Case in point: Director Jafar Panahi smuggled This Is Not a Film out of Iran on a flash-drive hidden in a cake. For me, the practicality of the sneakernet became revitalized after I began using git-annex earlier this year.