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May 31, 2006

Digital goods in dangerous packages

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Ever wonder why so many tech products, from digital media storage cards to computer cables to camera batteries, come entombed in those hard-to-open hard plastic clamshell packages?

Reporter Steve Friess wrote about those stubborn packages in a recent story on Wired News. Friess reports that not only do the packages frustrate consumers, they can seriosly injure them as well.