diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index 118982ff84..90c6a8fdbc 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -218,7 +218,6 @@ from .vine import VineIE
 from .viki import VikiIE
 from .vk import VKIE
 from .wat import WatIE
-from .websurg import WeBSurgIE
 from .weibo import WeiboIE
 from .wimp import WimpIE
 from .wistia import WistiaIE
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/websurg.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/websurg.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 43953bfdd5..0000000000
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/websurg.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-# coding: utf-8
-
-import re
-
-from ..utils import (
-    compat_urllib_request,
-    compat_urllib_parse
-)
-
-from .common import InfoExtractor
-
-class WeBSurgIE(InfoExtractor):
-    IE_NAME = u'websurg.com'
-    _VALID_URL = r'http://.*?\.websurg\.com/MEDIA/\?noheader=1&doi=(.*)'
-
-    _TEST = {
-        u'url': u'http://www.websurg.com/MEDIA/?noheader=1&doi=vd01en4012',
-        u'file': u'vd01en4012.mp4',
-        u'params': {
-            u'skip_download': True,
-        },
-        u'skip': u'Requires login information',
-    }
-    
-    _LOGIN_URL = 'http://www.websurg.com/inc/login/login_div.ajax.php?login=1'
-
-    def _real_initialize(self):
-
-        login_form = {
-            'username': self._downloader.params['username'],
-            'password': self._downloader.params['password'],
-            'Submit': 1
-        }
-        
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(
-            self._LOGIN_URL, compat_urllib_parse.urlencode(login_form))
-        request.add_header(
-            'Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8')
-        compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).info()
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(self._LOGIN_URL, '', 'Logging in')
-        
-        if webpage != 'OK':
-            self._downloader.report_error(
-                u'Unable to log in: bad username/password')
-        
-    def _real_extract(self, url):
-        video_id = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url).group(1)
-        
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
-        
-        url_info = re.search(r'streamer="(.*?)" src="(.*?)"', webpage)
-        
-        return {'id': video_id,
-                'title': self._og_search_title(webpage),
-                'description': self._og_search_description(webpage),
-                'ext' : 'mp4',
-                'url' : url_info.group(1) + '/' + url_info.group(2),
-                'thumbnail': self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage)
-                }