It depends on who you ask.

In the Common Law legal system, for example, were we charged and convicted by a jury of conspiring against the state, then legally speaking it would be, definitionally, conspiratorial. We don't have to agree with the verdict to be convicted coconspirators.

I reckon the consortium members wouldn't think of themselves as conspiring either, but does that exclude the possibility? Not even remotely.

So then how could we conclude they are not conspiring? We could wait and find out, but that doesn't like sound very good answer.

Suggestions?