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"Active or passive FTP"

A few weeks ago Freeola told us to change our FTP clients to use Active transfers because of a new more secure environment. Is that still the way it is? I can't see anything in the Freeola help pages to say one way or the other. I'm using "Active" and it works OK, but someone was saying to me that its illegal (???) to disallow passive transfers.

We are not aware of this being illegal, after all it is a transfer type normally used if behind a Firewall. I believe our logs are easier to follow with Active FTP.

This was on a forum for users of some web design software that has a built-in FTP client. I was saying that I couldnt use it because Freeola requires Active transfers, and this software doesnt allow me to switch to Active. One bloke in Australia said:

"... the standard here is Passive FTP. You can have Active as an adjunct to Passive, but to comply with the standard which is the law requires you to have Passive FTP - quite rightly so."

Anyway, my experience using WSFTP is that Passive transfers do still work, but very slowly. Using Active transfers, it works at the speed I was used to.

Am I right that Freeola changed this to improve security?

I'm not exactly sure why you are being told this as it is not illegal, after all Active Mode is a way of transferring files just like Passive mode is.
The people telling you this where have they found it is apparently illegal?

A few weeks ago Freeola told us to change our FTP clients to use Active transfers because of a new more secure environment. Is that still the way it is? I can't see anything in the Freeola help pages to say one way or the other. I'm using "Active" and it works OK, but someone was saying to me that its illegal (???) to disallow passive transfers.