My computer was in a fire and lost all my itune files...

Hello,
Recently my house was on fire and I lost my computer with all my itune files. I bought so many "the office" episodes but now they are all gone.
I was wondering if there was a way to recover all this since apple itunes keeps some sort of purchase history. Would it be possible to download them again?
Thanks
Zee
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thinking that once you have purchase content you could re-download stuff you own the right to use whenever you want, and that Apple and/or the Record Companies would not exploit the loss of a client to get them to re-purchase music they already have proof of ownership of.
Your thinking is incorrect. The iTunes Store only allows a single download. Why this is no one here can say, but it's been the policy since day 1 of the Store.
I have never backed up my media (since I owned all the DVDs and CDs) and now I don't do it either since I have way too much of it.
I personally think you're foolish not to back up downloaded content that you've paid for. There's no way you purchase too much to make a backup, at least once every couple of weeks, which would minimize the amount of potential loss.
I do not want to (and sometimes cannot always) do a backup every time I purchase a single song.
Your call. But if you don't, then you risk losing valuable items should your system crash or be stolen, and will have no right to complain should that happen. The policy's clear, and you cannot claim ignorance of it in the future.
Regards.

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