Kingsley Turner has released News Harvest 1.7 as freeware and open source.
It had been released as open source under the GNU GPL V3 license and the registration code had been included to the binaries.
"News Harvest lets you extract binaries from all your favourite news groups while you work, while you sleep, or while you watch. Fire and Forget binary news extractor."
You can download the binaries and source code at:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?sh=1&button=Search&key=NewsHarvest-1_7.wpi