diff --git a/shodan/stream.py b/shodan/stream.py
index eac345f..a47d143 100644
--- a/shodan/stream.py
+++ b/shodan/stream.py
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def _create_stream(self, name, query=None, timeout=None):
         return req
 
     def _iter_stream(self, stream, raw):
-        for line in stream.iter_lines(decode_unicode=True):
+        for line in stream.iter_lines():
             # The Streaming API sends out heartbeat messages that are newlines
             # We want to ignore those messages since they don't contain any data
             if line: