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Just a quick digression on this matter: no, it would not make any difference. Alleged usage of p2p protocols or even usage of p2p to share copyrighted content never causes an IP address to be included in a black list according to our 14 years approaching experience. By blocking torrenting we would also block VoIP, distribution of free and open source software, update systems of various software houses based on p2p and more without touching the problem you mention at all. We would betray our mission for no good side effect at all. Nowadays the main reasons of blocks against VPN IP addresses are a different kind of abuse and, even more importantly, an a priori refusal of connections coming from any privacy enhancing system which hurts personal data harvesting and reselling. We are in the presence of the thorny issue of services that grant access only if the user is willing to give up his or her privacy, be it for personal data harvesting or for definite geo-location for any intellectual monopoly related issue. That said, we also work daily to remove our IP addresses from the most important black lists around the world and we also make an important exception (since AirVPN birth, so it was decided in cold blood and deemed ex ante as the only acceptable violation of Net Neutrality) to the mission by blocking outbound port 25. Only time will tell whether you're right or not: in the last 13 years the amount of ISPs willing to take VPNs on their datacenters has increased significantly. AUP which forbade consumer VPN activity just 7-8 years ago have been rewritten to allow it (the discrimination remains against Tor in some cases, though). In any case our mission comes first, so it's not a matter to tweak the service and accept disgraceful compromises for us, but it's a matter to either providing the service according to the mission or not providing it at all. The customers and users only will reward or punish our commitments. Kind regards