diff --git a/ox/web/piratecinema.py b/ox/web/piratecinema.py
index 9ae3c24..4ed946b 100644
--- a/ox/web/piratecinema.py
+++ b/ox/web/piratecinema.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from ox.net import read_url
 
 def get_poster_url(id):
     url = 'http://piratecinema.org/posters/'
-    html = read_url(url, unicode=True)
+    html = read_url(url).decode('utf-8')
     results = re.compile('src="(.+)" title=".+\((\d{7})\)"').findall(html)
     for result in results:
         if result[1] == id: