Apparently PRS already took it to another level by threatening an employee for singing to herself at the store she worked at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm

The Reddit hug of death is when someone posts a link in a big community and thousands of people visit it, generating so much traffic at once that, while legitimate, ends up having the same effect as an actual attack does of overloading a website and causing it to become unavailable. Has nothing to do with the Reddit app being hot garbage.