I didn't, but it could also give way to a new breed of piracy by:
- circumventing the auto-pilot's security
- boarding the ship and hijacking cargo (no one to stop you)
Not to mention the fact that pirates seem to want to steal the whole ship and appear to be ill-equipped to offload cargo.
Some especially attentive news watchers may be aware that a large commercial airliner is though to have been lost without a trace in the recent past.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/08/world/asia/asia-piracy/index.h...