I don't purchase the TV shows, but if I would buy them, I'd read the fine print. I'm sure the purchase listed exactly how many episodes were included in the purchase. It is a bit sneaky for Comedy Central to split the show into a spring season and fall season. But nonetheless, you should read what you're buying and what you're getting.

And also about the baseball season pass: Although the name may betray the reality, most baseball season passes sold are not for the entire season but for a series of games throughtout the year, maybe 10 games or 25 games. Who has the time to attend 80 baseball games live in the period of a few months? They still call these season passes, but just for a portion of the season. This way they can sell more tickets because there are more people willing to buy smaller packages of games, instead of the entire season.

Moral of the story: read before you buy.

At least Apple has changed the name on the package of shows to minimize misunderstandings in the future. It is not Apple's fault that Comedy Central chose to break up the season. The creatives might not even known that the season was not exactly seven shows. But they run a professional operation and I'm certain that they specified that you were geting 7 shows.

I feel bad that you misunderstood. It is understandible for someone to make that mistake. But don't try to hit them up for each and every time that you feel that you should've known that the season was more than 7 shows. iTunes doesn't want unhappy customers, so theytry to minimize the future misunderstandings but don't ask them to give away a $12 product for free to maybe 100,000 individuals when they are making cents on that and Comedy Central is making dollars on it. And you'll have to agree that if they give you 2 season half for the price of one season half then everyone else who purchased the season half should also get the FREE shows that would normally cost $12.

If iTunes gives away 100,000 FREE passes then they will give away their profit on 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 TV shows. I don't know about you, but that would be a bad business decision in my book.

You can't feel that you're so special that only you deserve the FREE shows. If you or only a small group of people misunderstood, rather than most purchasers of the pass, then that fact goes to the point that it wasn't so unclear as you try to claim.

If on the other hand, the majority of season pass purchasers misunderstood and feel agrieved, then it would be in Apple's best interest to make it up to the loyal customers and get Comedy Central to participate in a concession to the early purchasers of season 10A by offering a discount on season 10B for the first 25,000 purchasers of 10A who take them up on their offer, or all buyerrs of 10A who purchased before they changed the name, etc.

That way you'll feel like they care.

But please don't misread the

I don't purchase the TV shows, but if I would buy them, I'd read the fine print. I'm sure the purchase listed exactly how many episodes were included in the purchase. It is a bit sneaky for Comedy Central to split the show into a spring season and fall season. But nonetheless, you should read what you're buying and what you're getting.

And also about the baseball season pass: Although the name may betray the reality, most baseball season passes sold are not for the entire season but for a series of games throughtout the year, maybe 10 games or 25 games. Who has the time to attend 80 baseball games live in the period of a few months? They still call these season passes, but just for a portion of the season. This way they can sell more tickets because there are more people willing to buy smaller packages of games, instead of the entire season.

Moral of the story: read before you buy.

At least Apple has changed the name on the package of shows to minimize misunderstandings in the future. It is not Apple's fault that Comedy Central chose to break up the season. The creatives might not even known that the season was not exactly seven shows. But they run a professional operation and I'm certain that they specified that you were geting 7 shows.

I feel bad that you misunderstood. It is understandible for someone to make that mistake. But don't try to hit them up for each and every time that you feel that you should've known that the season was more than 7 shows. iTunes doesn't want unhappy customers, so theytry to minimize the future misunderstandings but don't ask them to give away a $12 product for free to maybe 100,000 individuals when they are making cents on that and Comedy Central is making dollars on it. And you'll have to agree that if they give you 2 season half for the price of one season half then everyone else who purchased the season half should also get the FREE shows that would normally cost $12.

If iTunes gives away 100,000 FREE passes then they will give away their profit on 1,000,000 to 10,000,000 TV shows. I don't know about you, but that would be a bad business decision in my book.

You can't feel that you're so special that only you deserve the FREE shows. If you or only a small group of people misunderstood, rather than most purchasers of the pass, then that fact goes to the point that it wasn't so unclear as you try to claim.

If on the other hand, the majority of season pass purchasers misunderstood and feel agrieved, then it would be in Apple's best interest to make it up to the loyal customers and get Comedy Central to participate in a concession to the early purchasers of season 10A by offering a discount on season 10B for the first 25,000 purchasers of 10A who take them up on their offer, or all buyerrs of 10A who purchased before they changed the name, etc.

That way you'll feel like they care.

But please don't misread the

When I purchased the season pass for SP10, I assumed it covered the whole season, as every other SP season is listed as a whole season. This retroactice season splitting was not indicated when I purchased this new season, so to dismissively claim that we should "read the fine print" is disingenuous at best. Nothing will be done and most of us will continue to grudgingly buy the new episodes. Apple won't care and doesn't care. We are a revenue stream, nothing more and nothing less.

The problem is that Apple did NOT have fine print saying how many episodes there would be. Like it says in the article: "his purchase was not labeled anywhere as the first 7 episodes of season 10, but rather just a season 10 season pass." You can read the complete back-and-forth correspondence this journalist is referring to on the blog he mentions in the article. The customer support representatives even confirm that there was no fine print saying that the season pass was limited to only 7 episodes.

As for not knowing it was going to be a short season, the 10th season of South Park is not only 7 episodes long. South Park seasons have always gone well over 7 episodes. This is not a new series surprising a customer with a short season. It's a completely new definition of a season that Apple and Viacom sprung on unsuspecting customers. Television shows do not have a Season A and Season B within the same numbered season. It is ridiculous to blame a consumer for not knowing the place they were buying from was going to make up new definitions for their products. If the season pass was purchased after the announcement of a split season, it would make sense to blame their ability to read, but this is not the case in this situation.

The complete lack of fine print in the matter is why this truly is a case of false advertisement, and Apple and/or Viacom need to make good on their sale. It doesn't even make sense to have it up for argument, they should just apologize for their mistake and deliver what they sold.

I don't believe Apple can simply give the customers of the season pass the other episodes to be nice, even if they wanted to - Comedy Central holds the copyright. For Apple to give away the other episodes would be a breach of copyright, just like piracy. Apple COULD pay comedy central the money for the episodes, though I am sure they would rather try to discuss terms first - which I am sure happened, before the change was made on the iTS. Apple wants to make their customers happy, lets see what happens over the next few days.

I would like to see Apple bare the cost of the extra episodes and give them to the customers, it would be the right thing for them to do. Apple is usually very fare with its customers, I hope this issue gets cleared very soon.

If you look at the Episode Guides page for South Park (http://www.epguides.com/SouthPark/), you'll find that South Park has a history of releasing 7 episodes (sometimes 8) before taking a break for the summer, only to finish the season 7 or 8 more episodes in the fall. It's apparently common for Comedy Central to break up seasons like this. The interesting thing, however, is that there have been no other seasons identified with as season 10 is, with the A and B distinctions. This is sneaky on the part of Comedy Central, and quite unfair to those of us who purchased the season pass for Season 10. I don't see the fault in lying with Apple, but with Comedy Central, who obviously (and rightly so) are the ones in charge of how their shows get distributed. Apple is the middle man in this equation. Because of the shenanigans (note the obscure South Park reference with that word) on the part of Comedy Central, I have not, and will not, purchased any other South Park episodes. I have been and will continue to download all of the other South Park seasons via BitTorrent (I've only got season 4 left to do) and won't feel the least bit bad for doing so. I have bought, and will continue to do so, other episodes and season for other shows, just not South Park. It's my way of protesting this, once again, "shenanigan."

This is the exact reason that I get all my TV shows from bit torrent. They are all available BEFORE they air on the west coast and the quality is much higher than what you get on iTunes. A quick google search for "torrent tv rss" will show you how to get every TV show you want without having to search for shows each time their air... Its like the season pass, but free!