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This study analyzes a cooperative game between a service provider and a set of users. We consider a P2P network where the service provider broadcasts the content across the network and the users collaborate to seed the content to a subset of users in the network. The objective of the service provider is to determine the minimum cost network solution and to allocate this joint‐cost fairly among the...