> Amazon.com Inc. is nearing a deal to buy the Hollywood studio MGM Holdings for almost $9 billion including debt, said people familiar with the matter, a pact that would turn a film operation founded in the silent era into a streaming asset for the e-commerce giant.<p>What surprises me is that at $9 Billion, why hasn’t it been acquired by now?<p>Right now, video streaming is pretty much a solved problem, and it is content that differentiates one service from another.<p>If you are an Internet giant, $9 Billion seems like a pocket change to get access to a huge catalog.