Does anyone know why they called it ripbot when it doesn't do ripping?

[yoda313]

Since i"ve started using ripbot 264 a lot again lately I was wondering about its name. Why is it called ripbot? The term "rip" would imply ripping or copying off a disc. This is purely a converting software package.

Just curious.......

[Guest34343]

I suppose for a similar reason that a lot of people refer to the entire transcoding process as "ripping", e.g., "ripping bluray to dvd".

[yoda313]

I suppose for a similar reason that a lot of people refer to the entire transcoding process as "ripping", e.g., "ripping bluray to dvd".

Could be.

Maybe even though the developers have got to be super techy people maybe they wanted it called something a "layman" would understand.