Just to be accurate. Live-Streams on Youtube are disabled for Germans because of a law for broadcasting, it’s pretty outdated, but formulated in a way that it would prevent live-streaming via Internet, if you don’t have a prooper license for boradcasting. It’s a bit up to interpretation, but google uses a very strict interpretation of that law and just blocks it for Germans. Twitch on the other hand doesn’t seem to care for that law. The question is if live-streaming counts as broadcasting (as in the definition of that law, which is currently kind of blurry now, because the Internet wasn’t really a thing back )
Don’t really know if it will change at some point, I have the feeling that the majority of people aren’t even aware that it’s this outdated law that is preventing it.
BTW the intention was to make pirate TV/Radio stations via AM/FM illegal.
About the bans. Real bans are actually pretty rare. Especially TV/Movies fall under art, so we don’t have a lot of banned Movies (cases need to be very extreme)
Games on the other hand somehow don’t count as art (the perception iseems to be slowly changing though), but they mostly just get indexed. Which means that you are prohibited from openly advertizing and selling them, this includes displaying them on store shelves in areas people under 18 can enter. Practically stores, especially online stores treat indexed games as banned games and with online DRM it’s even more so. This could be solved if stores would actually include proper age verification, but making such a system just for Germans doesn’t seem to be worth the effort I guess.