Fried hard drive.

Recently had the hard drive on my laptop fried. Lightning came in through the cable modem frying it along with my router and hard drive. Trying to figure a way to retreive my itunes library to my new computer. Anyone know the Phone# or email for support. I've tried this online support but It's mostly for hardware support and need a serial numbers etc, etc. Tried sharing my library option but it says I have 5 computers already sharing (max). Not sure whats that all about. Since the only other computer I have is the fried 1.
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Sharing allows computers on the same network to share music.
Do you have your itunes library on another computer/backup drive? If you do, then you can reset your authorizations and re-authorize the active computers, and use home share.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420
You can transfer itunes purchases from an ipod:
File>Transfer Purchases
You can also do a forum search and find many posts on how to get content from an ipod.
http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html
"PRODUCTS CAN ONLY BE DOWNLOADED ONCE; AFTER BEING DOWNLOADED, THEY CANNOT BE REPLACED IF LOST FOR ANY REASON. YOU SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR BACKING UP YOUR OWN SYSTEM"
You can e-mail itunes support to see if they would make an exception - thought they are not obligated to do so.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes

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