I think the person that said that quote is implying that things like bolt cutters should be made illegal, strangely enough.
He also wants DMCA's safe harbor provisions curtailed.
He also wants DMCA's safe harbor provisions curtailed.
They want to levy egregious fines against anyone using BitTorrent for piratical ends, and make ISPs just as liable as their users. They don't need to outlaw BitTorrent when they can ban people from the Internet at will.
And furthermore they're not stupid. They know that BitTorrent is just a protocol, and it's presently just as easy to get pirated content over plain old HTTP as BitTorrent.