diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
index 06c6746ff0..20e85703f2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/extractors.py
@@ -636,7 +636,6 @@
 from .photobucket import PhotobucketIE
 from .pinkbike import PinkbikeIE
 from .pladform import PladformIE
-from .played import PlayedIE
 from .playfm import PlayFMIE
 from .plays import PlaysTVIE
 from .playtvak import PlaytvakIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/played.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/played.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 57c875ef05..0000000000
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/played.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
-# coding: utf-8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-import re
-import os.path
-
-from .common import InfoExtractor
-from ..utils import (
-    ExtractorError,
-    sanitized_Request,
-    urlencode_postdata,
-)
-
-
-class PlayedIE(InfoExtractor):
-    IE_NAME = 'played.to'
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?played\.to/(?P<id>[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)'
-
-    _TEST = {
-        'url': 'http://played.to/j2f2sfiiukgt',
-        'md5': 'c2bd75a368e82980e7257bf500c00637',
-        'info_dict': {
-            'id': 'j2f2sfiiukgt',
-            'ext': 'flv',
-            'title': 'youtube-dl_test_video.mp4',
-        },
-        'skip': 'Removed for copyright infringement.',  # oh wow
-    }
-
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        video_id = self._match_id(url)
-        orig_webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-
-        m_error = re.search(
-            r'(?s)Reason for deletion:.*?<b class="err"[^>]*>(?P<msg>[^<]+)</b>', orig_webpage)
-        if m_error:
-            raise ExtractorError(m_error.group('msg'), expected=True)
-
-        data = self._hidden_inputs(orig_webpage)
-
-        self._sleep(2, video_id)
-
-        post = urlencode_postdata(data)
-        headers = {
-            b'Content-Type': b'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
-        }
-        req = sanitized_Request(url, post, headers)
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(
-            req, video_id, note='Downloading video page ...')
-
-        title = os.path.splitext(data['fname'])[0]
-
-        video_url = self._search_regex(
-            r'file: "?(.+?)",', webpage, 'video URL')
-
-        return {
-            'id': video_id,
-            'title': title,
-            'url': video_url,
-        }