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The problem with posting it yourself, is unless you've spent ages cultivating a fb page with heaps of followers, you won't get any traction or views at all. And posting it yourself won't stop a larger fb page taking it.

Really tough for a small creator to police without tools. I think the lack of tools is the real place where Facebook is going to see trouble.

They're both at fault, to varying degrees, explicitly or implicitly.

Destin mentions in his "intro to freebooting" video his various attempts to contact Facebook regarding the piracy, and that it was only removed after a Twitter campaign led by his viewers: https://youtu.be/L6A1Lt0kvMA?t=3m49s

I don't know much, or have any experience with DMCA, but it's my impression that if there's a copyright violation on Youtube, the video can be taken down very quickly, and the burden of proof is then placed on the uploader to get it back up.