Music piracy is doing just fine, it's just that the balance of opinion seems to be that M4A is fine. You can even download M4A files from YouTube nowadays.
There are plenty of ping tools available. If you're on Android, you might be interested in Termux (F-Droid, Play), that lets you have a Linux commandline right on your phone. I personally use Net Analyzer (Play) too but there are plenty of choices out there.
YTA (or YWBTA? Not sure). Don't lie to your partner, especially not about the important stuff, and abuse is pretty damn important. There are plenty of ethical ways to encourage them to open up to you more.
Can't downvote, and downvotes don't affect my experience in any way. Top is sorted by raw upvotes. If someone downvotes, it's the same as if they didn't vote at all to me.
I completely agree with you but would go one step further - piracy is not only "not immoral", it is ethically necessary. Without piracy the hard work people have put into their creations (e.g. for the Nintendo WiiU/3DS) could vanish at the whim of one small group of people (in this example, Nintendo C-level execs). Of course there are other reasons too. But this alone is sufficient IMHO.
I know exactly what you mean. But as I started to read, for a moment I thought you were talking about dental floss, and I was thinking "When are you ever going to need that for something important‽"
To be fair, the ads said he should've gone, they didn't specify how