Creative Licensing Services waking up all hard drives, even offline drives.

I wasn't sure where to post this or report a bug, but these two services seem to have incorrect behavior. They will scan every hard drive in the system, which will wake up every drive in the computer, even if the drives are set to "Offline" in Disk Management.
Creative Audio Engine Licensing Service (CTAELicensing.exe)
Creative ALchemy AL6 Licensing Service (AL6Licensing.exe)
For what purpose do these services need low level drive access to every drive in the system? I have 3 disk drives and an SSD, I like to keep my disk drives turned off for silence, but whenever these two services run, respective programs lag as the computer spins up every hard drive one at a time. I suspect this would happen to external USB drives too.
Here's a performance monitor screenshot of CTAELicensing.exe waking up all hard drives when you click the "encoder" tab of "Creative Audio Control Panel". (for Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect)
And here's another performance monitor screenshot of AL6Licensing.exe waking up all drives when I launch an ALchemy enabled game.

Forgot to mention, I've seen this happen on Windows 7 x64 and Windows 8 CP x64 on both an X-Fi Titanium HD and a X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro.

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