diff --git a/examples/upsidedownternet.py b/examples/upsidedownternet.py
index aaf8ff749..181a40c23 100644
--- a/examples/upsidedownternet.py
+++ b/examples/upsidedownternet.py
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-import Image, cStringIO
+import cStringIO
+from PIL import Image
+
 def response(context, flow):
     if flow.response.headers["content-type"] == ["image/png"]:
         s = cStringIO.StringIO(flow.response.content)
diff --git a/libmproxy/console/contentview.py b/libmproxy/console/contentview.py
index b03d06c58..70f39d832 100644
--- a/libmproxy/console/contentview.py
+++ b/libmproxy/console/contentview.py
@@ -2,11 +2,8 @@ import logging
 import re, cStringIO, traceback, json
 import urwid
 
-try: from PIL import Image
-except ImportError: import Image
-
-try: from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS
-except ImportError: from ExifTags import TAGS
+from PIL import Image
+from PIL.ExifTags import TAGS
 
 import lxml.html, lxml.etree
 import netlib.utils
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index db34e4b6b..cb27fd04c 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Flask>=0.9
 Jinja2>=2.7
 MarkupSafe>=0.18
-PIL>=1.1.7
+Pillow>=2.3.0,<2.4
 Werkzeug>=0.8.3
 lxml>=3.2.1
 netlib>=0.9.2
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8dbc6135f..3c126a0e0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ setup(
             "urwid>=1.1",
             "pyasn1>0.1.2",
             "pyopenssl>=0.13",
-            "PIL",
+            "Pillow>=2.3.0,<2.4",
             "lxml",
             "flask"
         ],