"Would a temporary download link be given to re-acquire the item"

That's probably the idea, since they are giving you your buying history. Otherwise, what would be the point of that?

As for the whole downloads-on-demand thing, I probably take a more pragmatic POV. My local store isnt going to stock my favourite CDs in perpetuity, and I doubt I'd find many of them online. Even for online stores, look at DAZ and how it trimmed its inventory just recently. Much as we like to believe otherwise, online is not replete with infinite space.

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