diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.cpp b/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.cpp
index 0e1618cd990d42020dff00e77d12c8985950d9ee..c797b4228b63fd03cc3219e0ddbc3cecfbe3cea0 100644
--- a/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.cpp
+++ b/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.cpp
@@ -31,25 +31,3 @@ castor::tape::tapeserver::daemon::LabelSessionConfig::LabelSessionConfig()
   throw():
   useLbp(false) {
 }
-
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-// createFromCastorConf
-//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-castor::tape::tapeserver::daemon::LabelSessionConfig
-  castor::tape::tapeserver::daemon::LabelSessionConfig::createFromCastorConf(
-    cta::log::Logger *const log) {
-  common::CastorConfiguration &castorConf =
-    common::CastorConfiguration::getConfig();
-  LabelSessionConfig config;
-
-  const std::string useLBP = castorConf.getConfEntString(
-    "TapeServer", "UseLogicalBlockProtection", "no");
-
-  if (!strcasecmp(useLBP.c_str(), "yes") || !strcmp(useLBP.c_str(), "1")) {
-    config.useLbp = true;
-  } else {
-    config.useLbp = false;
-  }
-
-  return config;
-}
diff --git a/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.hpp b/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.hpp
index a2c1d41f5de0350707f8c341a515fdca8c187421..d7b590e3abc1acae94c0d718d0d2231230dc6a4b 100644
--- a/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.hpp
+++ b/tapeserver/castor/tape/tapeserver/daemon/LabelSessionConfig.hpp
@@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ struct LabelSessionConfig {
    */
   LabelSessionConfig() throw();
 
-  /**
-   * Returns a configuration structure based on the contents of
-   * /etc/castor/castor.conf and compile-time constants.
-   *
-   * @param log pointer to NULL or an optional logger object.
-   * @return The configuration structure.
-   */
-  static LabelSessionConfig createFromCastorConf(
-    cta::log::Logger *const log = NULL);
-
 }; // LabelSessionConfig
 
 } // namespace daemon