Q: itunes match_ content non available anymore-no renewing membership

Hi,

You lose access to all music in the cloud except for previous itunes purchases. It is up to you to maintain a back up of all your music. Do you have a back up?

Jim

"the itunes match cloud" did not "steal" anything from you. When you stopped paying the subscription fee then Apple was no longer under any obligation to continue maintaining the mirror of your iTunes library on their servers. If you are in a country that allows it you can still re-download most past iTunes Store purchases. However any tracks that were ripped from CDs or "from friends" or elsewhere are now gone if you did not retain local backups. It is your responsiblity to maintain backups of your personal data.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5085

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519