Amazon Sues Russian Tycoon’s Son in Tussle Over Twitch Access

Amazon filed a lawsuit seeking to block a Moscow court’s judgment in favor of a Russian tycoon’s son who sued the company for suspending his Twitch streaming account.

The judgment is 100,000 Russian rubles for each day of the suspension, doubling weekly, which “purportedly is now larger than all the money in the world,” according to Amazon’s complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California Thursday.

Amazon.com Inc. and its video live-streaming subsidiary Twitch Interactive Inc. allege in the complaint that Kirill Konstantinovich Malofeyev violated Twitch’s terms of service and content license agreement by bringing ...