A copyright is inherent upon creation of the work. One only needs to register the copyright for proof that it is theirs,
Exactly my point. You can put "copyright" all over it, but doesn't mean squat unless it's registered...people used to think that mailing a copy of something to themselves and not opening it was viable proof of copyright and/or ownership, but that's easily falsified and is not accepted as proof and, I believe, same goes for digital timestamps, which can be falsified. I'll have to see if I can find that article again where I found all this out.

UPDATE: FOUND IT http://www.copyrightauthority.com/poor-mans-copyright/

Jeremy, thanks, someone sent me the roller (didn't know "roller" was what I was looking for---this thing has so many different names now LOL).