Re: The origin of "rip" to mean "copy"

Pat Durkin filted:
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>"Arfur Million" <arfur_million@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Per Stromgren" <per.stromgren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > In this context "rip" means top "copy" or pull information from a
>> > media onto another. This use is not covered in the dictionaries I have
>> > handy.
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>> > Can anyone shed any light on its origin in this context?
>>
>> To "rip off" can mean to copy or plagiarise in colloquial English (British
>> English at least) and maybe, I speculate, this usage of "rip" is just a
>> shortened version of this meaning.
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>I concur. "Rip, (rip off, steal, tear off) a copy".

I disagree...from time to time there are discussions on the binaries groups
about "ripping from vinyl" or "ripping from cassette"...the general feeling is
that such usage is an inaccurate but permissible extension because "ripping" can
only apply to digital media (cf "dialling" a touch-tone phone), but the solecism
is overlooked because there's no comparable short expression for "making a
digital recording of something originally on analog media"....

I seem to recall articles a few years ago that suggests "rip" had something to
do with finding and using the appropriate directory headings on a compact
disc....r

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