diff --git a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/replay/__init__.py b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/replay/__init__.py
index c127fd582..952bae826 100644
--- a/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/replay/__init__.py
+++ b/scrapy/trunk/scrapy/replay/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 import os
-import sys
 import cPickle as pickle
 import shutil
 import tempfile
@@ -28,9 +27,6 @@ class Replay(object):
         usedir=False)
         """
 
-	log.msg("beta state! please don't use now", log.ERROR)
-	sys.exit(1)
-
         # XXX: this is ugly, and should be removed. but how?
         cachemw = 'scrapy.contrib.downloadermiddleware.cache.CacheMiddleware'
         if not cachemw in settings['DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES']: