[rsofaer]

He would have liked to use all the non-infringing content that was there as evidence that Megaupload was a genuine cloud storage company.

[versk]

completely uninformed here, but wouldn't having the servers wiped be better for the defense? no evidence for him, but none for the prosecutor either.

[Deathmax]

The prosecutors already had copied whatever evidence they needed from the servers.

[Avenger42]

And he's now unable to prove that the "evidence" isn't faked, since he can't access the servers himself and verify the contents.

At the very least it should make a good case for an appeal.