Howard's post got me thinking about the need to tighten up an understanding of what we might mean by the term "exploitation." The very broad sense in which it is often used -- to indicate that someone else benefits from our labor -- isn't a particularly useful one.
"The Internet as Playground and Factory" is a to-come conference and until now a discussion thread on the iDC list (list by the institute for distributet creativity, http://distributedcreativity.org/).