IPod is dead, how can I get my iTunes music back?!

I recently dropped my iPod in the toilet, as if you have never heard that story before! So now it is fried. We also got new computers, so we didn't have iTunes downloaded onto this computer. I re-downloaded it and signed in, but I found my music and movies, EVERYTHING was gone! I don't know how to get it back, or if it is even possible at this point. I put my iPod in rice too, but it still isn't working. Are my iTunes purchases and everything gone forever? That is so depressing if it is! So PLEASE respond! I'm desperate at this point! Thank you!!!

Have you not got a backup of your content on external drive(s) that you can copy onto your computer ? If not, and you are in the US, then you should be able to re-download past music purchases (assuming that they are still available in the store and you use the same iTunes account as you originally used to purchase them) : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519, but films can only be downloaded from iTunes once.

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