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Businesses that take advantage of user generate content: Youtube!!!

The content put on youtube is a cost for anyone putting up the content. There are millions of videos, which is essentially years worth of unpaid work hours. However, if you do get popular enough you can share revenue from advertising.

You mentioned journalism. Huffington post is an example of a very low paid labour. The amount authors get paid for each article really deflates the value of a journalist.


Online Social Networking sites are a type of unpaid work for solo or small business entrepreneurs. Having an active blog, twitter or whatever is essentially advertising for you. It's essentially unpaid. Most comedians have twitters accounts now in order to grow their followers. They giving away free jokes!