Terms and Conditions change on 10/15/2014 negatively affecting people with multiple Apple IDs

Question

I have two Apple IDs and purchased songs and videos through iTunes using both IDs.  Apparently, Apple has changed the Terms and Conditions for iTunes presumably at 12:01am on 10/15/2014.  The most notable change affecting me is related to people with more than one Apple ID.  I downloaded some songs on 10/14/2014 from the iCloud to my MacBook Pro which had been purchased a long time ago with my first Apple ID.  Early the morning of 10/15/2014, I tried to download songs and videos from the cloud to my MacBook Pro this time using a different Apple ID.  When I clicked on the cloud icon by the song or video in iTunes for Mac, I received a pop up message in iTunes stating that I can download past purchases on this computer with just one Apple ID every 90 days.  It continues by saying that my computer can be used to download past purchases with a different Apple ID that user cannot download purchases made using a different Apple ID in 90 days.
I have a real problem with this change in Terms and Conditions because Apple is telling me that I'm not allowed to have access to purchases I made until 90 days have passed.  These purchases were made prior to Apple's most recent change made to their Terms and Conditions, so they have retroactively restricted my use of media that I purchased legitimately.  I've posted on the support page because I would like to have Apple respond to my post and explain their rationale behind making this change.  Apple?  the floor is yours.

Answer 1

Ed.  Thanks for your response.  I made the assumption that the 90 day restriction had just been put into place because I was working with Apple support earlier on the 14th and was attempting to download content from my original Apple ID so I could back up everything to my computer and overcome the issue caused by having two Apple IDs.  During the support call, I was able to log in to iTunes and download previous purchases from the cloud for both of my Apple IDs.  When I attempted to do so early this morning, I received the message described above when I logged in to my primary Apple ID and attempted to download the songs I ran out of time to download while on the phone with Apple support.  Thanks for the clarification about the policy.
The goal of the Apple support person was to overcome the problem of having two Apple IDs.  It would be terrific if Apple came up with a solution for this problem as they have customers like me that would very much like to consolidate all of their purchases under one Apple ID.  Restricting access to legitimate purchases for 90 days is a pretty terrible policy to inflict on people that have paid for the use of these songs and videos.
I have to give you a hard time about part of your answer (in good fun).  Your answer could be summarized as saying "The best solution to your problem is not to have your problem in the first place."  What it means is that the problem is a legitimate problem that doesn't have a good solution.