Originally Posted by Warren P
Nobody is going to steal your songs.

Nobody is even going to listen to them.

They will be ignored as will the 3,000,000 other independant albums and EPs works published this year. You can put it on spotify and apple music, and pay someone to do that posting thing for you, and you might get between 100 and 1000 listens, who knows. You could spend some money on trying to get on playlists. You might be able to afford to buy 5000 listens. But your problems do not include any likelihood that Taylor Swift or someone big like her will steal your song and get a grammy with it.
Exactly right! Unless you are a pro in the music business actively building a career, paying to copyright your songs doesn't make much sense. But if you have the money and feel it is worth it then by all means go for it!