How do I PREVENT transferring purchases from iPad to Mac?

I have limited space on my MacBook air, I don't not want my iPad purchases transferring. How can I stop this?

I sync (over wifi) my ipad3 to my 2011 MBA (running mountain lion) to transfer photos from iphoto on my mac.
Unfortunately every time I do that iTunes tries to transfer my purchased videos from my ipad back to my mac. If I dont sync and use iCloud (which I do for everything else) how do I transfer the iPhoto albums?
I don't want to use dropbox to manually copy albums from iPhoto nor is possible to send photos from a mac to an ipad using photostream yet, correct?
Is there a solution, apart from waiting for new version of iTunes which will finally realise that people use iCloud for purchases???
(of course the video sync box if OFF on iTunes but it still wants to transfer the purchases).

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