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Being a little disingenuous there. Scraping != Linking.

Scraping involves stealing and reusing content from another party. Linking does not.

This shortcut could be seen as scraping the website, since it's just pulling out one image

Scraping = save a local copy of the image Linking = point to source image

If they are referring to jguitar.com each time then this is linking.

I had an app in the AppStore for years that scraped Vonage’s web site and neither them nor Apple seemed to care. There is nothing innately immoral about downloading a web page and parsing it in ways the web site operator did not consider.

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