If you’ve read your iTunes Music Store agreement well, you’ll remember that Apple is straight-up about what happens if your hard drive takes a dump. SOL (sorry out of luck :) ). But Lifehacker is reporting that there’s this dirty little secret that indeed you can re-download lost music. Lh couldn’t verify this claim, but three comments do confirm it. In fact, they all state that Apple gives you a whipping before resetting your account with the new download links.

So if you’re not a good boy or girl and don’t backup your music files or use RAID5 like we do here at SvenOnTech, then this may be an option. One we wouldn’t rely on, but still, an option.

Tags: apple, itunes, download, back up, re-download