The Ars Technica Mobile Site is Here!  If you've visited Ars Technica on your phone in the last 12 hours or so, you may have noticed a new design specifically for small screens. A number of you helped us figure out how best to approach this, which was fantastically nice of you.
We spent a lot of time attempting to address your feedback. In particular, we managed to make all content available on the mobile site, including multipage articles. A Blackberry may not be the best place to read a 27-page OS review, but you can do it if you want to. We also went with the frontpage layout that received the most votes in our poll. The site works exceptionally well on modern mobile browsers. It's also quite usable on most of the cruftier mobile browsers. Please let us know if you have any problems, though. We especially want to hear about browsers that aren't triggering the mobile layout but should be. This project (and associated crowdsourcing) were made possible by lotusknows.com
Enter the December Ars Giveaway! 
Our November Thanksgiving giveaway was a huge hit. The top winner walked away with five great games, a second-place finisher scored a new iPod nano, and 12 more lucky folks will become the coolest people on their blocks when they receive their guitar shirts from Think Geek! December is a month full of presents and other commercial activity, so we've got a new contest with some prizes that are beyond awesome. We're calling the top prize "Santa's swag bag," but frankly I've never seen Santa sport something this cool. Special thanks to The Saddleback Leather Company for supplying these great bags, and make sure to check out their special Christmas Sale—buy a present for a friend or loved one and get something smooth for yourself.
This month's gifts total well over $1000 with one individual getting a $600 Saddleback briefcase, 2 Xbox games, and some Ars swag! Read on to find out about the other prizes, how to enter, and the official rules.
Top stories: Dec 3 - 10, 2009
 Law & Disorder
"Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures
by Nate Anderson
One analyst has had it with Internet data caps. Bandwidth hogs are a myth, he says, and caps simply penalize heavy users who cause no problems for others. Now, he's throwing down the gauntlet and challenging ISPs to turn over some data for analysis. Read More
|  Law & Disorder
Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates
by Jacqui Cheng
Between $50 million and $6 billion may be owed to musicians and artists in Canada, but not from your run-of-the-mill file sharers. The Canadian recording industry itself is being accused of massive copyright infringement, and the list of miffed artists just keeps getting longer. Read More
|  Opposable Thumbs
Microsoft: difference between cheat, exploit? None. Banned!
by Ben Kuchera
Microsoft has begun issuing temporary bans to players taking advantage of an exploit in Modern Warfare 2, while Infinity Ward works on a patch to fix the issue. While the servers may be kept slightly cleaner for the efforts, the amount of control Microsoft holds over owners of their consoles, and the arbitrary way they are able to wield it, is troubling. Read More
|  Law & Disorder
How Hollywood plans to keep prices up as movies go online
by Nate Anderson
Digital downloads have broken apart the album and decimated major label music revenues. So movies will also get cheap and DRM-free as they increasingly migrate to the 'Net, right? Think again. Read More
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