ITunes erased all of my songs

When I just synced my iPhone with my computer all of my songs that I didn't buy from iTunes were erased. These were songs I had downloaded from CD and don't have anymore and songs I bought from other music sites. About 1000 songs are gone. Is this some kind of scam Apple has going on? To use iPhone and iTunes I can only have songs bought from Apple? Is this because of the new Mavericks I installed? I have used Apple only since 1994 and I am really considering other options over this.

Post not clear. Erased from the phone or erased from the computer?
Had the phone been synced before?
You no longer have the CDs?  You should keep CDs until you have completely finished with the music, then dispose of both the CD and any files made from it.  The CD is quasi your license to listen to the music.
No, probably millions of people who own i-devices have music from other sources.  There's something about your configuration or what you did that resulted in this but there's insufficient information to say right now.

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