The invention relates to a method and system of growing a network and distributing data using the network including one or more production nodes that send data and a plurality of consumer nodes that receive data from one or more production nodes or at least one other consumer node. The first software resides on each of the consumer nodes and the second software resides on each of the production nodes wherein a data request is not relayed and routed through several intermediate nodes in a path way but only is made to a logically adjacent node and where the logically adjacent nodes take no action to retrieve data from another node if the logically adjacent node is unable to fulfill the request itself. The invention can be implemented for mobile phones, streaming internet applications and cable television.