How to prevent iTunes to modify my library ?

When I am online It seems that iTunes 10.5 (but older ver. too) is checking my library and modify my songs: album cover, album title even song name sometime when they are not english !
I have a collection of old vinyl and iTunes change those album with new CD version !
How to prevent this ?
BTW why iTunes can't check only  the selected song or Album when "Get Album Artwork" or "Get track name" are launched ?
I don't use the "Get Album Artwork" function anymore, since I saw some Original Vintage album modify to new recent edition.

I use a much older version of iTunes but there is an "automatically download missing album artwork" feature in the general tab of the preferences you can uncheck.

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