diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 8c4ddf00cb93f58f0637aa594efb2787bc16efe2..779b47e2a667c5e460ad512437e1b137e3636058 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/golang/freetype v0.0.0-20170609003504-e2365dfdc4a0
 	github.com/golang/snappy v0.0.1 // indirect
 	github.com/gorilla/mux v1.7.4
-	github.com/h2non/filetype v1.0.12
 	github.com/ipfs/go-cid v0.0.4
 	github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs v0.4.22-0.20191119151441-b8ec598d5801
 	github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs-config v0.0.11
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 330d93e64df0542ce5b2a151b21ff4ae8a82822b..bb73f895538e4d259c1dfd1674697cfd5fbfb371 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -197,8 +197,6 @@ github.com/gxed/go-shellwords v1.0.3/go.mod h1:N7paucT91ByIjmVJHhvoarjoQnmsi3Jd3
 github.com/gxed/hashland/keccakpg v0.0.1/go.mod h1:kRzw3HkwxFU1mpmPP8v1WyQzwdGfmKFJ6tItnhQ67kU=
 github.com/gxed/hashland/murmur3 v0.0.1/go.mod h1:KjXop02n4/ckmZSnY2+HKcLud/tcmvhST0bie/0lS48=
 github.com/gxed/pubsub v0.0.0-20180201040156-26ebdf44f824/go.mod h1:OiEWyHgK+CWrmOlVquHaIK1vhpUJydC9m0Je6mhaiNE=
-github.com/h2non/filetype v1.0.12 h1:yHCsIe0y2cvbDARtJhGBTD2ecvqMSTvlIcph9En/Zao=
-github.com/h2non/filetype v1.0.12/go.mod h1:319b3zT68BvV+WRj7cwy856M2ehB3HqNOt6sy1HndBY=
 github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0 h1:hLrqtEDnRye3+sgx6z4qVLNuviH3MR5aQ0ykNJa/UYA=
 github.com/hashicorp/errwrap v1.0.0/go.mod h1:YH+1FKiLXxHSkmPseP+kNlulaMuP3n2brvKWEqk/Jc4=
 github.com/hashicorp/go-multierror v1.0.0 h1:iVjPR7a6H0tWELX5NxNe7bYopibicUzc7uPribsnS6o=
diff --git a/util/mime.go b/util/mime.go
deleted file mode 100644
index dfaf5239d17f0882ae2cba13acfbe84376c02ec8..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/util/mime.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-package util
-
-import (
-	"io"
-	"net/http"
-	"strings"
-
-	"github.com/h2non/filetype"
-	"github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo/util/cleanup"
-)
-
-func GetMimeType(stream io.ReadCloser) (string, error) {
-	defer cleanup.DumpAndCloseStream(stream)
-
-	// We only need the first 512 bytes at most to determine the file type
-	buf := make([]byte, 512)
-	_, err := stream.Read(buf)
-	if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
-		return "", err
-	}
-
-	// Try identifying through the filetype repo first
-	kind, err := filetype.Match(buf)
-	if err != nil || kind == filetype.Unknown {
-		// It's unknown or had a problem reading - try against the http lib
-		contentType := http.DetectContentType(buf)
-		contentType = strings.Split(contentType, ";")[0]
-
-		// This shouldn't happen, but we'll check anyways. The http lib should return application/octet-stream
-		// if it can't figure it out.
-		if contentType == "" {
-			contentType = "application/x-binary"
-		}
-		return contentType, nil
-	}
-
-	return kind.MIME.Value, nil
-}