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Huge Half-Life discovery found from a decades-old CD sitting in a storage unit (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Burning is writing a disc. Ripping is extracting data from a disc. Whoever wrote the article used lingo they don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 54 minutes ago

That is what I thought, I have burned many discs in my day, and I have never got an ISO from bruning a disc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I knew it had to do with putting data on a disc. I didn't know the specifics.