Wireless neighbor's music library on my mac

My situation: I have a DSL (wire) connection, as my wireless card has itself been disabled due to a long sad story involving the genius bar of my local apple shop. That apparently has not kept an upstairs iTunes-friendly neighbor from (intentionally or unintentionally?) sharing her music library of 5500 songs. What I see in my iTunes left side panel is an icon of multiple blue "playlist" squares, with her name beside it.
My questions:
1. what does this icon mean? (what is it?)
2. could showing up on my playlist column like this only be done intentionally? (does it mean Im sharing my DSL?)
3. why am I having no luck in copying any music from this list to my own new playlists?
thanks
R

Music sharing in iTunes has 2 basic settings. Share My Music, and Look For Shared Music. Those are the 2 key ones.
The icon is representing a Shared Music source that iTunes is seeing on the network. You can listen to those sources if you wish. It is unlikely that the sharing user does not know it is being shared as it has to be enabled manually and is by default, not enabled.
If you simply disable "Look For Shared Music", you should see the shares your neighbor is sharing go away.
You can not copy songs from a shared source. That would break copyright laws hence the absence of the feature.
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