Popular Post Habanoschris Posted 16 hours ago Popular Post Posted 16 hours ago Hello all I have been busy with work and travel and not too active on the forum for several weeks ... I wanted to share an overdue update. Habanos and their lawyers had YouTube remove my channel -Habanos Chris- towards the end of 2025. Someone (not ha_banos believe it or not lol) even suggested that it was somehow Kirby Allison who was worried about my upcoming top 5 review 🤣 I highly doubt I was on Kirby's radar and anyhow, the Kirby review is actually quite positive and was near completed when my channel was removed. The truth is Habanos and YouTube said this was all due to copyright issues. I guess using the name Habanos and some of the likeness of their logo wasn't the best idea in hindsight. Also, Habanos had removed my Instagram a long time ago. I think I even mentioned this in the interview with Rob and feelings that they may come for my channel. So in other words, I had plenty of time to defend against this by changing my channel name and logo etc. So call it being stubborn or lazy but I didn't want to change my name. Also, even with worry they would yank my channel, I didn't even back up some of my reviews. So if there are any "superfans" out there that downloaded my reviews reach out to me as I missing a few. However, I was able to find most of my reviews and was thinking of doing a re-boot under Havana Chris. I created a channel and made a new bumper (below). I know people are fatigued with cigar reviews and I am a bit myself but I felt my channel was slightly different in some ways with some brand history and somewhat unique video editing. I will keep you all posted if/when resume making YouTube cigar content. http://www.youtube.com/@havanachris I do really appreciate the friends I made through the channel, all the support, and getting to meet some of my cigar world heroes! 18
Popular Post El Presidente Posted 15 hours ago Popular Post Posted 15 hours ago I wish you every success Chris! You deserve it. Habanos lawyers have been on the IP warpath for the past 6 years. I don't have a problem with them protecting their IP. FOH had to change from Friends of Habanos to Friends of El Habano after receiving a legal letter 5 years (?) ago. I took it to the higher levels given we are "Habanos Specialists" and have represented/Habanos officially since 2002 (and prior to that as a pirate since 1996). No go. They were adamant. Fair enough and to be honest, it was a god send. Take the licking, move on, be bigger and better. 11 2
Popular Post Habanoschris Posted 15 hours ago Author Popular Post Posted 15 hours ago Thanks Rob! It means a lot coming from you. I do recall your own name change issue which was obviously higher stakes. Great advice & class act as per usual. 7
Mike Mecklenburg Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago Hi Chris, I was a early subscriber and follower of your channel and was sad to see it pulled. You would think that all the past positive content you provided would be appreciated by the powers at be. I'm glad you are renaming and bouncing back. Best wishes with the new channel! Mike 3
Montezüma Posted 14 hours ago Posted 14 hours ago Surprised to see the lawyers still making time for IP work while defending against the full might of American and Chinese governments. 3
Marco_011t556 Posted 13 hours ago Posted 13 hours ago Sad to hear. Someone changed their name as Habana...LOL! 3
Popular Post barrygoodvibes Posted 13 hours ago Popular Post Posted 13 hours ago Such BS. So should I not start a channel under CocaColaBarry? 4 1
yuppie Posted 12 hours ago Posted 12 hours ago Auto-subscribed! Can't wait to see the Kirby piece get published! 4
JohnS Posted 11 hours ago Posted 11 hours ago Sorry to hear this, Chris. I hope you get back all your reviews! 1 1
SonGoku Posted 10 hours ago Posted 10 hours ago Didn’t know of your channel before. So on a positive note you got a new subscriber 😊 Looking forward to your videos. 3 1
Popular Post ha_banos Posted 9 hours ago Popular Post Posted 9 hours ago Here she is. Very busy doing more cancelling Glad you decided to relaunch. Let them come... Χα_πανοσ. 2 3
zacca Posted 5 hours ago Posted 5 hours ago 11 hours ago, Habanoschris said: Saying this with positive intent, but I would suggest changing your font and colors with the new logo. It’s close enough and you already poked the bear once…even if you ultimately win, you could be inviting more problems. 3
Habanoschris Posted 38 minutes ago Author Posted 38 minutes ago 8 hours ago, ha_banos said: Glad you decided to relaunch. Let them come... Χα_πανοσ. Thanks brother 😚💨
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