diff --git a/core/Files/AsynchronousFileReader.php b/core/Files/AsynchronousFileReader.php
index 881c3998..41b9bd72 100644
--- a/core/Files/AsynchronousFileReader.php
+++ b/core/Files/AsynchronousFileReader.php
@@ -58,24 +58,6 @@ class AsynchronousFileReader {
 		}
 	}
 
-
-	/**
-	 * Create a new cURL Request for the given URL, DO NOT CALL MANUALLY!
-	 *
-	 * @param string $url
-	 * @return Request
-	 */
-	public function newRequest($url) {
-		$request = new Request($url);
-		$request->getOptions()->set(CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 60)->set(CURLOPT_HEADER, false)// don't display response header
-		        ->set(CURLOPT_CRLF, true)// linux line feed
-		        ->set(CURLOPT_ENCODING, '')// accept encoding
-		        ->set(CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'ManiaControl v' . ManiaControl::VERSION)// user-agent
-		        ->set(CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); // return instead of output content
-		return $request;
-	}
-
-
 	/**
 	 * Load a Remote File
 	 *