The fallback position of giving the money to addiction and mental health charities was arguably a better outcome than giving the money to dealers.

And one of the reporters who saw the video was on the radio this morning saying that three other copies are floating around.

So it's a win-win-win.. the supposed drug-dealers are 200k short, the people who originally donated money to defame and ruin a man's political career now feel noble and charitable again because it turns our they donated to a good cause after all, and Rob Ford's political career is ruined forever. Couldn't have asked for a more wonderfully humanitarian outcome.

It seems likely to me that other members in their gang or community must have taken care of these guys by now. Who would buy drugs from anyone associated with these guys after such a major leak of personal information? The "Somali" brand has undoubtedly taken a huge hit now that its clear that, like so many young operations experiencing growth, they didnt take security seriously enough from the start.

The guys at the top must be in full damage-control mode, because they're going to lose a magnitude more revenue than a measly $200k. I don't know who their competition is, but there's a big opening for a mid-sized crack dealer to rapidly expand their marketshare if they can convince their customers that they take the security of their personal information seriously.

As for the guys with the video, think what happened to David Barksdale

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

...but cross it with what happened to D'Angelo Barksdale.

It's so ironic and weird that Gawker was involved in poisoning David Barksdale's employment opportunities, and is also involved in the Rob Ford case, while still living under the shadow of the millions of passwords they leaked last year.

One person in the photo was gunned down in a "targeted" murder [1].

[1] http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/27/homicide-detectives-...