Can I turn iTunes Match Upload OFF?

All of my unpurchased music is ripped ALAC, so if iTunes can't find it in MATCH, it uploads all of these HUGE files.  I've got over 9000 tunes that it's doing this to.  I really DON'T want to stream ALAC files to my phone or anything else.  Is there a way to to tell iTunes NOT to upload?

Eric Seaberg wrote:
Is there a way to to tell iTunes NOT to upload?
Not at this time. However, iTunes is not uploading the ALAC files to the cloud. Any ALAC tracks that are not matched are first transcoded to temporary 256 Kbps AAC and those files are uploaded.

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