Happy 4th of July everyone!

A lot of people have been asking me what the term “Flash Pirates” means on the MochiBot homepage. In short, Flash Pirates are people who copy the Flash content that you’ve developed and put it on their own website.

Flash Pirates can either be a good thing or a bad thing. It all depends on how you look at it. Having your Flash work copied to someone else’s website can be good because that means someone likes what you’ve built and it also helps to share your work with a larger audience. However, it can also be a bad thing if the Flash Pirates take credit for your work. Arrrggghhh!

Typically it’s a good thing when someone puts forth the effort to copy, host and share your Flash work. The only problem with that is once your Flash files leave your server you have no way of seeing how much traffic that content is generating. With MochiBot, though, Flash developers are able to see how much traffic their work is generating no matter how many Flash Pirates get a hold of it. Most people don’t even know that their Flash work gets copied and hosted on other websites. You’d be surprised how many pirates are out there.

…and that’s why we use the term Flash Pirates on the MochiBot homepage.

Sail swiftly and let MochiBot protect you from savage plundering!