Flaying alive top corporate executives and beer makes the perfect octoberfest - lots of fun for everyone and not a single human being will be harmed.
If Facebook does some effort to write up a decent piece of text there, then I bet most people would root for Facebook, not DT, in this case. Especially so if the mainstream media does not explicitly appear to disagree. In fact, papers like Bild will love a healthy scandal and will likely choose Facebook's side just to blow things up. (idem for Google, of course)
I see at least two problems: the leverage that the other party actually has (GEMA, DT) and the willingness of the citizens to do something about it.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_YouTube_videos_in_G...