It only costs $55 to challenge it but it is a crime to do a false claim.
No. It cost $55 to file a claim (false or not). It's technically a crime to make a false claim but the maximum penality is $2500 and as far as anyone has determined so far, no one has ever been charged under it.
The fact is this registration can legally be challenged, basically an open invitation.
Unfortunately this isn't true. If wright tries to take any action he would simply lose because he is an enormous scammer, but it would be his move so he simply won't do it.
Only the government can enforce the law against making a false registration, but presumably they won't because they haven't bothered before.
Fortunately, the copyright registration has absolutely no effect other than just helping wright defraud people. -- just like it had no effect when someone previously did it (if you search you'll see there is another one for bitcoin done by a prior scammer back in 2016).
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/ronald-keala-kua-maria-claiming-to-be-satoshi-and-registering-trademark-45192021. the C.O dont investigate, it requires a opposing human to make a counter claim, and to take the counter claim to court to argue that craig is a scammer.
2. "if craig tries to take any action he would simply lose".. what if the game is not to take people to court and spend millions on lawyers for craig to win, but for craig to just send out dodgy C&D letters threatening court action and then making the recipient waste money. by which most C&D recipients just pay up the settlement fee just to make it go away
(standard patent troll scam..)
its like the encrypted harddrive viruses. 'pay up in 72 hours or else'
C&D: dont do X or we will take you to court, pay me $x now and you can continue