1. How do you know it is being misused? There could be a legitimate legal complaint here. 2. How does a legal threat indicate that the legal system is broken?

1. How do you know it is being misused? There could be a legitimate legal complaint here. 2. How does a legal threat indicate that the legal system is broken? People disagree on matters of the law all the time. There is nothing terrifying about that. 3. How expensive is this threat likely to be? Desist from whatever the other person is threatening you over, or else if you have the right to do it spend a few hundred dollars getting a lawyer to write a counter-notice. It's not that big of a deal. 4. This follows an incident where someone who might have done something slightly foolish or contentious surrounding a trademark or copyrighted work. Since I don't tend to do contentious things in this arena, I'm very unlikely to ever be the target of a legal threat like this. Even if I did, how many people do such things and never get threatened? I suspect many. If the cost of getting threatened is low, the odds of getting threatened are even lower. How could I possibly be terrified of something unlikely to ever affect me? So, yeah, even after your response I still think the use of the word "terrifying" in this context is quite foolish.