Deborah - this is indeed a grey area, but it still falls under the same umbrella -- cheating. Cheating on grades or being dishonest academically still constitute acts of deception. Unfortunately, the behavior is so pervasive that many students don't consider it "a big deal".

I don't think much is accomplished by punitive means alone.  There may be many missed opportunities here to teach students that the consequences of cheating are greater than a mere suspension or detention and that it can have an impact on other areas of their lives. So many examples abound of writers, public figures, journalists, and others whose academic dishonesty, cheating or plagiarism have come back to haunt them later in life. Technology makes it possible for the transgression to exist in perpetuity. The lesson that honesty is the best policy may be an old one, but it bears frequent reinforcement.