Origin of tracks downloaded as matches?

With the network monitor of Little Snitch running it appears that when downloading matched tracks, they can come from anywhere - all sorts of sites appear as downloading progesses. It looks as though this is a file sharing network!

Thanks for giving me this advise. I went to the sites and tried to find some albums, but they didn't offer the ones I was looking for. Classical Archives requires a payed for memberschip. E.g there are only 3 albums of my favorite conducter Carlos Kleiber at Classical Archives, but more than 30 at iTunes ! I love iTunes, don't get me wrong. I'm just disappointed about the quality of some of the offerings and the fact that they leave albums with bad quality in their store even after issuing complaints about the sound quality. They just have to clean up their act and maintain the high quality they profess to. For me iTunes is a killer app. I want to try to make them more responsive to complaints and keep the standards high!
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