[s_henry_paulson]

Your analogy still does not resolve why only one party in the trial gets to see the evidence in its entirety before it is destroyed.

Why would the defense (i.e. the owner of the data) not have the same opportunity as the prosecution to review their own material?

The only counter-argument that I can see is that Mega should continue paying their hosting bills for as long as the government wants to drag the trial on for. Which very well was a possible intent from the start. In which case, the entire thing seems like a government strong-arm, of which I am not in favor.

[stephengillie]

My point was to translate the lost opportunity costs of the data storage into more concrete terms. Im not trying to make any legal commentary.