What, exactly, they are dividing?
Do any of them have the keys to any of this "property"?
Any way they are collaborating so that the court "confirms" that csw is satoshi? He's shown himself to be quite the trickster.
Neither of them have the keys. Faketoshi thinks a Florida court can compel all miners worldwide to transfer to him whatever coins he wants without providing a valid privkey signature. The odds of this actually occurring are less than zero.
The court specifically said it will not be deciding who Satoshi is.
While narcissists usually fail at these levels of justice, they don't accept it, no matter what.
Expect some more bullshit action from this psycho-clown commonly known as CSW.
True. The problem I see is that the justice system is far from competent enough to deal with such issues. At least that's the way I see it. Given enough attempts, there may be a situation when CSW could win a case due to a bad/incompetent judge/jury, and then start a barrage of legal actions to force the application of the ruling, which could put pressure on the Core Devs and other Bitcoin-related entities to comply. We all saw what happened with Cøbra. Of course, such ruling (i.e., the transfer of coins without keys) would be impossible to apply without specific changes to the code, changes which will then need to receive consensus (which they won't), and this could lead to a situation dragging on forever. I suspect that's exactly what CSW may be seeking, i.e., to create a huge mess and satisfy his ego and megalomania in the midst of it all.
Such fuss, when a simple ability (or lack thereof) to sign a message with a specific key could solve all issues and remove all doubt in an instant. It just defies belief as to why everyone still has to put up with CSW's shit.
Justice, in technological manners, is mainly dependent on "experts" in the process. The expertise(s) is/are the foundation for judgements.
Like: Old judge nominates expert X to answer a set of questions that help the juridical process get to decisions.
In this case, questions like: "Can somebody prove to be owner of (below listed) blockchain adresses?", "If yes, what would be a valid proof?".
Next round, old judge will ask CSW if he can deliver a proof of ownership.
CSW will reply: "Yes, of course i can! Here's the proof..."
If the proof CSW delivers to the court and it's not in the form the expert considered to be valid, his ownership claim will get rejected.
In my country, he would then be able to plea against the judgement, the next higher court in the hierarchy would check the trial for correctness. If the revision court doesn't find any errors old judge made, CSW would be rejected, otherwise the trial will be rolled up again, following directions from the revision judge.
There's another escalation level, but that would be like a claim against the nation/law itself (...good luck with that).
EDIT: Of course, on of the main questions of the judge(s) would be if coins can be transferred without keys.
Cobra is a different story. He chose not to defend the case because of reasons, which is like granting CSW's wish (agreeing to his perspective of copyright ownership of the bitcoin whitepaper). IIRC this trial was about that. Claiming "stolen money" from somebody needs a little more solid proof of ownership. Also "mining coins together with mr. Kleiman" doesn't make him co-owner if there's no agreement. Kleiman's "supercomputer" did the work, and even if CSW "lost the keys" (proof of ownership), the court can't decide in his favour if there's no other way to prove ownership. We already know the odds
But if you're stupid, fuck-u-rich or even both, you wanna likely throw a small amount of your wealth at lawyers and courts without giving a fuck.
CSW also profits from being in the news, "making himself a name".
Amirite?