Can you usb computer home share?

I have my new laptop that I just received today and I wanted to transfer my itunes library from my desktop onto my laptop. I know that you can wifi home share which is what I am doing at the moment but it is going to take a long time. I was wondering if I could use a USB cable between my desktop to my new laptop and transfer the library that way. I am assuming that the transfer rate would be much faster than over my home wifi connection.

If you connected the computers with an ethernet cable and switched off the wifi connection on the source computer forcing it to use the ethernet then that would speed up the Home Sharing Copying.
The reason i say leave the wifi turned on on the new computer is that some sort of check is made to apple for protected content to ensure that the destination machine is authorised. At least I think it does that.
Did not work for me with WiFi off did when it was switched on

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