diff --git a/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/Dockerfile b/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/Dockerfile
index 003f96f6825..93835bb38f2 100644
--- a/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/Dockerfile
+++ b/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/Dockerfile
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
 
 FROM gcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:485.0.0-alpine@sha256:d5da0344b23d03a6f2728657732c7a60300a91acaad9b8076c6fd30b1dfe1ff4
 
-RUN apk add wget
+RUN apk add py3-yaml
 
 COPY ./debian-copyright-mirror.sh /
+COPY ./debian-copyright-mirror.py /
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/debian-copyright-mirror.sh"]
diff --git a/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.py b/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c4bdfe2d202
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.py
@@ -0,0 +1,163 @@
+"""
+Download all of the copyright files for packages in main in Debian unstable.
+
+This:
+
+Parses https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/filelist.yaml.xz 
+    to identify the files to retrieve
+Generates a curl configuration to download the URLs
+Executes curl to download the URLs in parallel
+"""
+
+import os
+import argparse
+import yaml
+import lzma
+import urllib.request
+import subprocess
+from typing import List, Optional, Dict
+
+
+class Error(Exception):
+  """General purpose error class."""
+
+
+def download_url_to_directory(url: str,
+                              directory: str,
+                              filename: Optional[str] = None) -> Optional[str]:
+  """
+    Downloads a URL to a specified directory.
+
+    Args:
+        url (str): The URL to download.
+        directory (str): The directory to save the file to.
+        filename (str, optional): The filename to use. If None, the filename
+                                   is extracted from the URL. Defaults to None.
+
+    Returns:
+        str: The full path to the downloaded file, or None on error.
+  """
+  try:
+    if not os.path.exists(directory):
+      os.makedirs(directory)
+
+    if filename is None:
+      filename = os.path.basename(urllib.parse.urlsplit(url).path)
+
+    filepath = os.path.join(directory, filename)
+
+    urllib.request.urlretrieve(url, filepath)
+    return filepath
+
+  except urllib.error.URLError as e:
+    print(f'Error downloading {url}: {e}')
+    return None
+  except OSError as e:  # Catch directory creation/file writing errors.
+    print(f'OS Error: {e}')
+    return None
+  except Exception as e:  # Catch any other unexpected error.
+    print(f'An unexpected error occurred: {e}')
+    return None
+
+
+def extract_unstable_copyright(filelist: str) -> Dict:
+  """
+    Extracts the 'unstable_copyright' entry for each package 
+        from an xz-compressed YAML file.
+
+    Args:
+        filelist (str): The path to the xz-compressed YAML filelist
+
+    Returns:
+        A dictionary where keys are package names and values are 
+            their 'unstable_copyright' entries, or None if no unstable 
+            copyright is found.
+  """
+  try:
+    with lzma.open(filelist, 'rt', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+      data = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+    results = {}
+    for package, versions in data.items():
+      if 'unstable' in versions:
+        entries = versions['unstable']
+        for entry in entries:
+          if entry.endswith('unstable_copyright'):
+            results[package] = entry
+            break  # Found it, no need to continue checking this package.
+
+    return results
+
+  except FileNotFoundError:
+    print(f"Error: File not found at {filelist}")
+    return None
+  except lzma.LZMAError as e:
+    print(f"Error: LZMA decompression failed: {e}")
+    return None
+  except yaml.YAMLError as e:
+    print(f"Error: YAML parsing failed: {e}")
+    return None
+  except Exception as e:
+    print(f"An unexpected error occurred: {e}")
+    return None
+
+
+def generate_curl_configuration(filelist: List[str]):
+  """
+    Generates a curl configuration to download all of the files in filelist.
+
+    --output filename
+    url = https://url
+
+    Args:
+        filelist (List[str]): a list of files to download.
+  """
+
+  url_base = 'https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs'
+
+  with open('/tmp/curl_configuration', 'w') as curl_config:
+    curl_config.writelines([
+        '--output ' + path + '\n' + 'url = ' + os.path.join(url_base, path) +
+        '\n' for path in filelist
+    ])
+
+
+def execute_curl(configuration: str, directory: str):
+  """
+    Execute curl with the supplied configuration in the specified directory.
+
+    Args:
+        configuration (str): path to configuration file.
+        directory (str): path to set current working directory to.
+ """
+
+  os.makedirs(directory)
+  subprocess.run(
+      ['curl', '--parallel', '--create-dirs', '--config', configuration],
+      cwd=directory,
+      check=True)
+
+
+def main():
+  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+  parser.add_argument('work_dir')
+  args = parser.parse_args()
+
+  download_url_to_directory(
+      'https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/filelist.yaml.xz',
+      '/tmp')
+  unstable_package_copyright_files = extract_unstable_copyright(
+      '/tmp/filelist.yaml.xz')
+  if unstable_package_copyright_files is None:
+    raise Error('Unexpected result determining files to download')
+  generate_curl_configuration(
+      f for f in unstable_package_copyright_files.values()
+      if f.startswith('main/'))
+  with open("/tmp/curl_configuration") as curl_configuration:
+    if len(curl_configuration.readlines()) < 80000:
+      raise Error('Unexpectly small curl configuration')
+  execute_curl('/tmp/curl_configuration', args.work_dir)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  main()
diff --git a/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.sh b/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.sh
index d42bb128e68..bbc6d0c8fc3 100755
--- a/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.sh
+++ b/vulnfeeds/cmd/debian-copyright-mirror/debian-copyright-mirror.sh
@@ -29,18 +29,7 @@
 
 mkdir -p "${WORK_DIR}" || true
 
-if gsutil --quiet stat "${GCS_PATH}"; then
-  gsutil ${BE_VERBOSE="--quiet"} cp "${GCS_PATH}" "${WORK_DIR}"
-  tar -C "${WORK_DIR}" -xf "${WORK_DIR}/$(basename ${GCS_PATH})"
-fi
-
-wget \
-  ${BE_VERBOSE="--quiet"} \
-  --directory "${WORK_DIR}" \
-  --mirror \
-  --accept unstable_copyright \
-  --accept index.html \
-  https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main
+python debian-copyright-mirror.py "${WORK_DIR}/metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/"
 
 tar -C "${WORK_DIR}" -cf "${WORK_DIR}/$(basename ${GCS_PATH})" .