Knowing that the collector being sued could use the sheriff's sale option to make an end-run around the lawsuit would discourage consumers from bringing these lawsuits in the first place.
The patent also described another functionality -- a set of keys that could be used, for example, by "trusted law enforcement agents" to do an end-run around the encryption.
For creators -- people who've spent their careers making content and trying to sort out an economic model -- curation can seem like an end-run around hard work.
Plus, encouraging your own customers to create and share branded content represents a sort of end-run around algorithms that limit the reach of posts from corporate accounts.