diff --git a/i3pystatus/core/netrc_backend.py b/i3pystatus/core/netrc_backend.py
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index c59ddfa..0000000
--- a/i3pystatus/core/netrc_backend.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-import os
-from keyring.backend import KeyringBackend
-
-
-# This is an example custom keyring backend. It should probably be somewhere else...
-class NetrcBackend(KeyringBackend):
-    def get_password(self, service, username):
-        from netrc import netrc
-        sections = service.split('.')
-        setting = sections[-1]
-        if setting == 'password':
-            key = ".".join(sections[:-1])
-            setting_tuple = netrc().authenticators(key)
-            if setting_tuple:
-                login, account, password = setting_tuple
-                return password
-
-    def set_password(self, service, username, password):
-        raise Exception("Setting password not supported!")
-
-    def priority(cls):
-        netrc_path = os.path.isfile(os.path.expanduser("~/.netrc"))
-        if not os.path.isfile(netrc_path):
-            raise Exception("No .netrc found at: %s" % netrc_path)
-        return 0.5