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The article reports that the growing popularity of Internet pornography has reduced the revenues satellite- and cable-television companies generate from pornographic films and videos. Both DirecTV and Time Warner Cable Inc. have reported lower demand for their adult content. Time Warner chief executive Glenn Britt said the availability of free pornography on the Internet is at fault.

The article offers information on payment for punitive damages to professional wrestler Hulk Hogan in the invasion-of-privacy lawsuit against online media company Gawker Media. Topics discussed include a sex videotape of Hogan published by Gawker, plans to appeal the verdict, and financial statements of the company.

The article discusses the sex video of Mark Reilly, an executive of the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the company's allegations of bribery in China from an internal whistleblower, and the investigation into the international business advisers ChinaWhys Co. as of June 2014.

The article discusses the ouster by Chinese authorities in the city of Chongqing in January, 2013 of ten local-government officials and executives at state-owned firms who were alleged to have appeared in sex videos, and provides additional commentary about an increasing emphasis in China on combating corruption.

The article reports that Nazril Irham, lead singer of the Indonesian pop ban Peterpan, was sentenced to three and a half years in prison and fined 28,000 dollars for two blurry, homemade sex videos seen by Internet users across Indonesia.