In 1994, I had access to personal webpage hosting. I read the HTML doc and built a webpage and because URL's were a big idea for the web I linked to an external

In 1994, I had access to personal webpage hosting. I read the HTML doc and built a webpage and because URL's were a big idea for the web I linked to an external image. In a few weeks the link was broken. That's just the way it goes when you try to use the web the right way. Working around it is probably pragmatically ethical. Perhaps not deontologically. But it is not that complicated. If you don't feel it is ethical it is not ethical. Ethics is not doing things just because you can get away with them. Good luck.