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Why Amazon is buying a video-game streaming site 亚马逊为何要购入一个流媒体视频游戏网站 ON OCTOBER 4th 2013, tens of thousands ofgamers packed the Staples Centre inLos Angelestowatch SK Telecom T1 triumph over Royal Club in the annual finals of League of Legends, ateam-based video game; 32m people watched the games live at some point, about 50% morethan watch Sunday Night Football. But they did not watch on television. They used Twitch.tv,a website founded in 2011 that streams live video directly to users computers. 2013年10月4日，成千上万的游戏玩家挤在洛杉矶的斯台普斯中心围观SK Telecom T1在团队视频游戏英雄联盟年度总决赛上击败了Royal Club;观看这场游戏竞赛直播的观众人数多达3200万人，这比观看周日橄榄球之夜的观众人数多了约50%。但他们没有用电视观看直播，而是使用 Twitch.tv，一家在2011年建立的直接面向用户电脑的流媒体视频直播网站。 On August 25th Amazon announced that it would buy Twitch for $970m, an indication of thegrowing importance of video-streaming websites. Amazon was not the only one interested: afew months ago Google had been rumoured to be on the verge of offering $1 billion for the firmas well. 在8月25日，亚马逊宣布其将花费9.7亿美元收购Twitch，这显示了流媒体视频网站日益增长的重要性。亚马逊并不是唯一一家对Twitch感兴趣的公司;数月前，有传闻说谷歌也差点想以10亿美元收购这家公司。 | 
