rip: v. 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of
music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a
"CD ripper". 2. [Amiga hackers] To extract sound or graphics from a
program that they have been compiled/assembled into, or which
generates them at run-time. In the case of older Amiga games this
entails searching through memory shortly after a reboot. This sense
has been in use for many years and probably gave rise to the (now
more common) sense 1.