That is absolutely bloody outrageous. Do you know other people it's happened to? If you can get enough of them together you'll have a bit more weight behind your complaint. And you should complain.
I remember last month PC Gamer ran an article on digital distribution licenses, and explained how no-one actually owned games they'd bought from digital distribution sites; Rather they had payed for access to the service's license, access which the service was able to revoke whenever they chose. The Steam EULA actually went as far as to explicitly say "this license does not infer any ownership by the customer" or similar.
Now, this may be something everyone has agreed to, knowingly or not, but there is such a thing as a unfair contract. It is fully within your rights to speak out against such abuse of a legal convention that was supposed to enforce truth and honour.
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