diff --git a/lib/torrent2http/mimetypes.py b/lib/torrent2http/mimetypes.py
index eff6135..94b548a 100644
--- a/lib/torrent2http/mimetypes.py
+++ b/lib/torrent2http/mimetypes.py
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ class MimeTypes:
                 except EnvironmentError:
                     break
                 try:
-                    ctype = ctype.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
+                    ctype = ctype#.encode(default_encoding) # omit in 3.x!
                 except UnicodeEncodeError:
                     pass
                 else: