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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by JimA on Friday September 21, 2018 @10:13AM (#18039808)
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.

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Re:Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple by ryandrake on Friday September 21, 2018 @11:41AM (#18040487)
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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