1. A method for distributing a live program over a distributed network, the method comprising: preprocessing a data stream representing the live program into a plurality of substreams, each of the substreams comprising decimated samples of the data stream, wherein the data stream is continuously coming till the live program ends; identifying boxes in service that are idle; selecting a set of seeding boxes from the idle boxes to receive the substreams; and causing the seeding boxes to propagate the substreams as being received to other of the idle boxes so that there are a sufficient number of suppliers to provide the substreams to ordering boxes.