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Rip

Apart from meaning Rest In Peace in the real world, Rip has a very different meaning concerning digital media. To Rip something is to make a copy of it from a source. For example, an CDA disc can be "ripped" to MP3 tracks on a HDD, or a DVD-Video compilation can be ripped from a DVD disc onto a HDD. Ripping from a DVD is almost always considered as describing bypassing copy protection systems to copy unencrypted content to a HDD.

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CD CD-ROM CSS DRM DVD DVD Copy Control Association DVD-Rip DVD-ROM DVD-Video Macroblock Macrovision
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fpink3 4 March, 2009 17:24 Send private message to this user  
I have assumed "rip" (in the DVD copying context) was borrowed from the electronic publishing community. In the absence of any other plausible explanation, I think my assumption is correct. It is short for Raster Image Processer. A RIP takes analog or vector based files, then converts them into the correct bitmap output for a particular printer. In this context, the term RIP predates the use of all personal computers. The same vernacular used by printers (RIP a big Postscript file into a format native to the commercial typesetter) made its way into the disc copying world when people started converting CDs into MP3s. The process is not exactly the same, but there a strong parallel. "Ripping" a CD either copied the unwieldly, uncompressed 16 bit, 44.1 kHz digital audio file straight to computer disk (as a WAV file, usually) or copied and compressed the audio into a compressed (if less accurate) file (mp3 or similar). RIP was, in turn, borrowed by the DVD copying community for a similar process. Sticklers in each community have made attempts to "limit" the usage of the term. For instance, some DVD experts claim that RIP only applies to the copying of the DVD data from a disc to another medium, not to the transcoding process. This kind of rigidity can't be sustained, using the past history of the term as guide.
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