Ripping's the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk, typically from removable media or media streams. The word's used to refer to all forms of media. Digital audio extraction's a more formal phrase applied to the ripping of audio CDs. Ripping's distinct from simple file copying, in which, the source audio/video isn't formatted for ease of use in a computer filesystem. For example, the hierarchy of files making up the audio/video data on a DVD-Video disc can be encoded into a… (More on Ripping)