Digital Ethics to teach or not to teach?

I think we tend to forget about ethics when we are using the internet. Yet we can’t completely forget or it could really cause a lot of problems. Since I am a photographer and not just a teacher I think about photos on the internet and misuses of copyright all the time. I haven’t put very many photos on the internet because I worry that someone would misuse the photo not following proper ethics. This article really makes a point that we need to pay attention to what is proper ethics when using the internet. As teachers we need to do our best to check student work that they are following proper ethics.
Is it the teachers’ responsibility to teacher digital ethics? I believe it is partly the schools responsibility as well as the parents to teach students proper ethics. This is a topic that I have been thinking about. Our school should have a beginning computer/technology course that all freshmen should be required to take. In that course ethics could be addressed. This way, students would get the basics technology skills that they would need for the rest of high school and life. As it is now it is hard for all teachers to stop what they are teaching in order to focus on ethics. This really can slow down the learning process when teachers have to stop students to make sure there are using proper technology ethics.
Is it important that students have digital ethics? Why?
Yes, students need to have proper digital ethics. They will need these skills for the rest of their lives. They need to have the right ethics now so that they don’t get themselves in trouble later. I would hate to hear that a former student has been jailed or sued etc because they broke digital ethics.