It's part of the walled garden's feature set. Let's hope more of this happens and people start asking for their digital rights(i.e drm free media,hardware etc)

> Not funny when you lose your music and software worth several hundred euros.

Indeed. I never spent much money on Apple media or applications, but in the last few years I've spent nothing.

>when you lose your

It was never yours. Buy music from Bandcamp and save it on your hard drive. That is yours.

You can download a DRM-free copy of any audio track you bought in the iTunes Store. It's been like that for around 10 years.

>Buy music from Bandcamp and save it on your hard drive. That is yours

but itunes music is DRM-free as well?

You would only lose access to music not saved in an accessible location (and purchased after DRM was removed unless you took the steps to get drm free tracks[1]) and also software bought on the App Store.

[1]funny story: I have one (or more) tracks in my music library that a friend shared with me almost 20 years ago when we were in college and he added me as one of the 5 computers that could play the tracks. Every time I’ve moved my library to a new computer it asks me to log into that account to approve that track, but it won’t give me a list of the tracks so I can delete it/them. It isn’t enough of an annoyance that I’ve tried too hard to find them.

Are you sure? Legally speaking you might be required to delete it then.

https://xkcd.com/488/

That will teach people not to "buy" stuff you don't really own. Piracy o streaming are better solution. DRM is ethically and technologically bankrupt.

With Apple you have since many years now (10 years or so?) been able to download an unencrypted DRM-free copy of every audio track you ever bought in the iTunes Store. It's clearly to no consolation for OP, but it's worth pointing this fact out nevertheless.

To balance out your balance, with Apple, they recently chose to put government spyware on your devices (until public outcry caused them to delay/reconsider).