Like for example: a drug raid, or they’re accusing you of illegal hacking, or some sort of TheSilkRoad type of stuff.
Assuming the original investigation find no evidence and leads to no charges, could they use the pirated content that you have as a last ditch effort to get you in prison? Not distributing, just personal use.
Not limited to any specific jurisdiction, just want to know what happens in general.
Though you need to evamine every file because ‘/usr/bin/bash’ might really be an illegal video. (I’m a bsd fan so this would be useful to me if only I had something illegal to hide)