diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/show.py b/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/show.py
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index 3e7474a49..000000000
--- a/scrapy/contrib/pipeline/show.py
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@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-"""
-Pipeline to print Items
-"""
-from scrapy import log
-from scrapy.core.exceptions import NotConfigured
-from scrapy.conf import settings
-
-class ShowItemPipeline(object):
-    def __init__(self):
-        if not settings['DEBUG_SHOWITEM']:
-            raise NotConfigured
-
-    def process_item(self, domain, item):
-        log.msg("Scraped: \n%s" % repr(item), log.DEBUG, domain=domain)
-        return item