A .txt file can be illegal, if you have very used visual basic before, you can create a .txt file and type information on it, for example let's say you type in employee personal information, you can then use the .txt file as a database so that it can be used in the visual basic program. In that sense since the information is a bit sensitive the .txt file would be illegal to download. You can do the exact same thing with the program access can't remember what the format for that is though. My point is its not the format that is illegal it is the data it carries that can make downloading it illegal.
Here is a bit of info im not 100% sure about this though maybe karma knows more about. I had a discussion about this with one of my professors and he was telling me about how a .mp3 format wasn't even meant for music compression but, i have not been able to confirm this yet.
As for the government spending money on health care in canada they do. It's free for all citizens, all you do is flash your health card and you get treated. You don't even have to be a canadian citizen my parents aren't and they get that luxury as well.
Think about it like this i do agree that we aren't taking from starving children or charities, but at the same time you can't go up to a rich person and mug them because that is against the law, saying that it is ok to download music because the person is rich is exactly like mugging a rich person.
Don't get me wrong i have downloaded music before, what i find funny is that record companies go about this problem in the wrong way....they keep trying to prevent people from downloading, i read in the paper recently that they have cds that have some weird protection on them. This protection makes it hard for a computer to read the cd, but in the paper it said that car cd players and etc had difficulty playing them. Instead of resisting the technology record comepanies should embrace it and use it a best they can....but they probably won't for a while.
Sorry for the long post..i don;t usually make long ones lol
