Does Home Sharing Transfer Physical Files?

We set up a Mac Mini in the home simply to act as a music server, so my wife, kids and I can all have access to the same music.  We chose a dedicated machine so that it always had iTunes open and running to allow access.
We are trying to avoid building up tons of files on our personal machines, rather, we want any iTunes purchase to go onto the Mini. 
If we have a home share setup, and we purchase songs on a local machine, does home sharing physically move the files to the other machines on the home sharing if we set it up to automatically transfer new purchases?

Jason Browdy wrote:
does home sharing physically move the files to the other machines on the home sharing if we set it up to automatically transfer new purchases?
yes if you have the copy to ... when adding option enabled in iTunes > preferences > advanced.
i don't see the point of not copying the content because otherwise the original homeshared library would have to be constantly connected in order to play the content.

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