I'm going to add a comment to what Andrew has written for @jpbliberty - Both and Andrew and I are ideologically committed to using this case to accelerate the demise of centralised Web 2.0 and accelerate Web 3.0 (which may or may not be the Cryptocosm as spoken of by George Gilder).
As we move forward with this case, we will probably raise money from old school and established litigation funding companies (we already have some serious players showing strong interest). These funding sources are nearly only interested in the return. This case has the possibility to pay out a large return quite early with a settlement.
More ideologically minded funders might want to push on toward a much larger settlement or even a court victory that could enact a financial shift from these old companies to the new world of crypto. The more money we can raise through crowd funding and this novel SPS method, the more power we have dictating how the case is fought.
The benefit for Steem and the entire cryptocosm has been laid out in the proposal.