Apple certainly deserves a taste of what they do to others, but of course they won't.

Actually it's worse than that, this would be a legitimate, deserved hit, while what they do to all the refurbished/scavenged parts is not. Someone somewhere already paid Apple for those parts, and Apple no longer owns them, yet they can deploy the government to exert control over them, and the little guy can not do the same to defend against that.