Content purchased on Apple TV also downloads on iTunes. How do I stop this?

My iTunes is set to "streaming" not "sync" with my Apple TV. The problem is that even though I am set to "stream", most of what I purchase direct from my Apple TV also wants to download to my iTunes which means that I now have 2 copies of the same content which I do not want because it takes up hard drive space on my Mac. I only want the Apple TV content on my Apple TV only. Is there a way to change a setting somewhere instead of having to call Apple to remove the content from my download Que?

Scott Weaver wrote:
thanks for your answer although I do not want any of my apple tv content to be backed up on my itunes even though I may lose the purchased content on my apple tv for some reason. This is why I changed my settings from "sync" to "streaming". It did not start doing this additional downloading to iTunes till they came out with iTunes 8.0
Changing the method of media transfer from sync to stream will not affect the tv in the way that you want it to. You you might want to change the type of library to a shared library though.

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