Everyone else has given you some good advice on your messaging, so I'll give you some business/technical advice as a former Netflix employee:
Try to negotiate your contracts with global streaming rights. It shouldn't cost too much more but will make your life a lot easier as you try to expand globally. That was one thing that slowed Netflix's global expansion -- a lot of the content was not globally licensed.
You will have to develop a very robust system for identifying a user's location based on IP address as well as advanced proxy detection. Maybe not at first, but as you move up into more "Hollywood" productions they will require you to show that you are protecting their content from theft. You will also have to show that you are encrypting everything with DRM, or they won't license content to you.
Don't try to stream your video from AWS. Netflix uses AWS as the control plane but built their own CDN, and some of how they build it is publicly available: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/. Before they built their own CDN, they used Akamai and Level 3.
Try to build your system for future white label resale. If you're successful, maybe some Asian or Hispanic filmmakers will be interested in a platform focused on their needs. If you build it for white labeling you could potentially resell it for them (this is how HBO started streaming, by buying what MLB had built).
Here are the Netflix black content categories that I know about, but there could be more:
Good luck! It's a hard space to compete in, and if Netflix starts to notice you I can see them trying to copy you, but hopefully you'll be big enough by then to fend them off!
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Try to negotiate your contracts with global streaming rights. It shouldn't cost too much more but will make your life a lot easier as you try to expand globally. That was one thing that slowed Netflix's global expansion -- a lot of the content was not globally licensed.
You will have to develop a very robust system for identifying a user's location based on IP address as well as advanced proxy detection. Maybe not at first, but as you move up into more "Hollywood" productions they will require you to show that you are protecting their content from theft. You will also have to show that you are encrypting everything with DRM, or they won't license content to you.
Don't try to stream your video from AWS. Netflix uses AWS as the control plane but built their own CDN, and some of how they build it is publicly available: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/. Before they built their own CDN, they used Akamai and Level 3.
Try to build your system for future white label resale. If you're successful, maybe some Asian or Hispanic filmmakers will be interested in a platform focused on their needs. If you build it for white labeling you could potentially resell it for them (this is how HBO started streaming, by buying what MLB had built).
Here are the Netflix black content categories that I know about, but there could be more:
https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/81299227
https://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/81305957
Good luck! It's a hard space to compete in, and if Netflix starts to notice you I can see them trying to copy you, but hopefully you'll be big enough by then to fend them off!