Gifted Content is no longer available for download from store?

On Christmas in 2006, I gave my brother a season pass from iTunes for a canceled tv show called "Smith." It only cost $12.99 to get all 7 episodes (some of which never aired on tv) as well as a digital booklet containing the plot synopsis of each of the remaining 5 unfilmed episodes.
At the time his computer was severely crippled due to age and an old installation of XP and lots of other factors. It was in no shape or form to download and watch videos from iTunes on. So recently he got his computer back in good working order with a fresh installation of the OS, and so last night we went to download the episodes of Smith. He had remembered a few months ago right after his computer was up to par, but didn't know where his download code for it was. So I logged in last night to my iTunes account and got everything he needed and we tried to download it... only to get an error message saying that that content is no longer available from the iTunes store!!
I guess I can understand if they take content off the servers that isn't selling well, but shouldn't they be able to track whether or not a gifted purchase has been redeemed yet or not? I don't remember seeing anything about a download deadline when I purchased it for him. If it's not available at all anymore, shouldn't I be entitled to a refund of my $12.99?
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this before.
Thanks.

yensid4him wrote:
Thanks. That worked. I submitted a note to the help dept. and they issued me a refund for $12.99. It still stinks that the content is no longer available.
Yes, but that's the way agreements with the studios work
Okay now I have another question related to this... is it possible for someone to resell (re-license?) content that they bought from the iTunes store? I mean, since this TV show will never be released on DVD, and not even all of the episodes aired on TV, could someone who was willing to "sell" (transfer) their license of it to me do so?
Nope. You don't own the rights to distribute. Your purchase only entails you to posses the product. It does not grant you any resell rights or transfer rights. The studios do not allow this at all.
I've always wondered that, because you can resell physical CDs and DVDs that you don't want anymore... is that possible with iTunes purchases? I imagine it would have something to do with authorizing computers...
You cannot compare the two. With CD's and DVD's you own the physical media (you don't own the content itself, but they are inherently linked). That's not the case with digital content which are only licensed to do certain things with them. Again, its how the media companies want to do business.

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