diff --git a/pbincli/actions.py b/pbincli/actions.py
index 3966442..892e27d 100644
--- a/pbincli/actions.py
+++ b/pbincli/actions.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def send(args, api_client):
 
     if args.debug: print("Response:\t{}\n".format(result))
 
-    if 'status' in result and not result['status']:
+    if result['status'] == 0:
         passphrase = paste.getHash()
 
         print("Paste uploaded!\nPasteID:\t{}\nPassword:\t{}\nDelete token:\t{}\n\nLink:\t\t{}?{}#{}".format(
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ def send(args, api_client):
             api_client.server,
             result['id'],
             passphrase))
-    elif 'status' in result and result['status']:
+    elif result['status']:
         print("Something went wrong...\nError:\t\t{}".format(result['message']))
         exit(1)
     else:
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ def get(args, api_client):
 
     if args.debug: print("Response:\t{}\n".format(result))
 
-    if 'status' in result and not result['status']:
+    if result['status'] == 0:
         print("Paste received!")
 
         version = result['v'] if 'v' in result else 1
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def get(args, api_client):
             print("Burn afrer reading flag found. Deleting paste...")
             api_client.delete(json_encode({'pasteid':pasteid,'deletetoken':'burnafterreading'}))
 
-    elif 'status' in result and result['status']:
+    elif result['status']:
         print("Something went wrong...\nError:\t\t{}".format(result['message']))
         exit(1)
     else:
diff --git a/pbincli/format.py b/pbincli/format.py
index c21ce57..fc7b108 100644
--- a/pbincli/format.py
+++ b/pbincli/format.py
@@ -129,35 +129,33 @@ class Paste:
         
 
     def __decompress(self, s):
-        if self._version == 2:
-            if self._compression == 'zlib':
-                # decompress data
-                return zlib.decompress(s, -zlib.MAX_WBITS)
-            elif self._compression == 'none':
-                # nothing to do, just return original data
-                return s
-            else:
-                raise PBinCLIException('Unknown compression type provided in paste!')
-        else:
+        if self._version == 2 and self._compression == 'zlib':
+            # decompress data
+            return zlib.decompress(s, -zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+        elif self._version == 2 and self._compression == 'none':
+            # nothing to do, just return original data
+            return s
+        elif self._version == 1:
             return zlib.decompress(bytearray(map(ord, b64decode(s.encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8'))), -zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+        else:
+            raise PBinCLIException('Unknown compression type provided in paste!')
 
 
     def __compress(self, s):
-        if self._version == 2:
-            if self._compression == 'zlib':
-                # using compressobj as compress doesn't let us specify wbits
-                # needed to get the raw stream without headers
-                co = zlib.compressobj(wbits=-zlib.MAX_WBITS)
-                return co.compress(s) + co.flush()
-            elif self._compression == 'none':
-                # nothing to do, just return original data
-                return s
-            else:
-                raise PBinCLIException('Unknown compression type provided!')
-        else:
+        if self._version == 2 and self._compression == 'zlib':
+            # using compressobj as compress doesn't let us specify wbits
+            # needed to get the raw stream without headers
+            co = zlib.compressobj(wbits=-zlib.MAX_WBITS)
+            return co.compress(s) + co.flush()
+        elif self._version == 2 and self._compression == 'none':
+            # nothing to do, just return original data
+            return s
+        elif self._version == 1:
             co = zlib.compressobj(wbits=-zlib.MAX_WBITS)
             b = co.compress(s) + co.flush()
             return b64encode(''.join(map(chr, b)).encode('utf-8'))
+        else:
+            raise PBinCLIException('Unknown compression type provided!')
 
 
     def decrypt(self):