Why pay for streaming when Muscular Development shares for free?
UPDATE (15-8-21): Immediately after publishing this article, Muscular Development and Giles Thomas removed all footage that they shared on their social media.
As fans paid for a live streaming service for the 2021 Europa Pro, Giles Thomas of Muscular Development was sharing live video footage on Instagram.
A few weeks ago, the organizers of NPC Worldwide Europe, released a press release stating that there will be a camera and video ban at the 2021 Europa Pro event.
Read More: Camera Ban – Fans and athletes vent their frustration at NPC Europe.
As many fans and athletes complained about this rule for this event, it made sense since as live streamlining was being offered for a fee.
Still fans and athletes were disappointed because their own family members could not record footage of their family member or friend competing.
While scrolling through Instagram, Evolutionofbodybuilding.net’s Kevin Grech noticed that Muscular Development was streaming a live feed on their Instagram account.
This is surely not something that the promoters would not like, especially during a low turnout because of Covid-19.
Immediately after Evolutionofbodybuilding.net published a story exposing Muscular Development for sharing the live feed, Giles Thomas contacted this site.
Giles Thomas has a history with this website and its owner Kevin Grech. When this site published a story regarding a NPC/Pro League judge getting suspended, Giles Thomas attacked this site and its owner.
Read More: IFBB Pro League/NPC judge Paul Knight suspended by Jim Manion
Even after Giles Thomas was informed that the article Evolutionofbodybuilding.net published was valid, he continued to throw mud at this website.
Back to the story, Giles Thomas stated that he was given permission to stream the footage.
According to the press release by the promoters, the media can share media, but not the live footage. Regardless, it does not make sense financially for the promoters if the live feed is shared.
At the same time, after calling the owner of Evolutionofbodybuilding.net a ‘dickhead’, he took the liberty to block this sites owner from Muscular Development’s Instagram page.
It is very hard to believe that Muscular Development’s owner Steve Blechman has given so much power to Giles Thomas.
After Evolutionofbodybuilding.net exposed Muscular Development for sharing the live feed, they immediately ended the feed.
In his message, Giles Thomas also stated that the camera ban was only for the pro event.
If the camera ban was only for the pro event, why is NPC Worldwide Europe charging a fee for live streaming for 12-15 August, 2021.
So while fans are paying hard earned money for a streaming service, Giles Thomas decides to screw the promoters that gave him a media pass to stream the contest himself.
This does not make sense and any person reading this article will immediately realize that this goes against what NPC Worldwide Europe are trying to do.
Evolutionofbodybuilding.net was informed by prominent people in the industry that they were contacted by show promoters to stop live streaming from recent events on personal social media pages.
If a show promoter is offering a live streaming service for a fee and indicates that all footage and photos are their property, this rule should apply to everybody, even accredited media.
Financially this does not make sense for the promoter. The promoter will lose money and suffer financially if certain media stream footage themselves for free.
Giles Thomas who?
While Giles Thomas is walking around representing Muscular Development, this site has been informed that Giles allegedly is on bad terms with some of the biggest stars in the industry for botched deals.
As well, this site is also informed that Giles Thomas is allegedly banned by one of the biggest promoters of the NPC/Pro League for entering all of their events.
There are a number of big events still to take place and Giles will allegedly be missing from a few of them.
It is very funny how nobody asked Muscular Development why Giles Thomas was not present at a number of prestigious events during this year.
This site has stated the facts today, and Giles Thomas answered through a Instagram page that is owned by Muscular Development. A very unprofessional move from this very immature so called journalist.
Just before Giles Thomas removed the live feed, this site managed to take the screenshots to show our readers.
Muscular Development
This site has always had a great working relationship with Ron Harris, the face of Muscular Development. It was evident that Ron was not at this event as he would have not done something so ridiculous.
Regarding Giles Thomas blocking this site, it will be Muscular Development’s loss as Evolutionofbodybuilding.net will cease from sharing the great media that Ron Harris produces. This in return will mean less revenue from Youtube and other sources for Muscular Development.
Blocking this site is a decision that Giles Thomas made on his own, without consulting management that pay his wages.
The below images are in chronological order:
Show promoter promoted the pay-per-view live streaming service on his personal Instagram page
Evolutionofbodybuilding.net notices that Muscular Development is streaming the event for free, ignoring the fact viewers are paying for this service.
Giles Thomas decided to immediately contact Evolutionofbodybuilding.net and he also decided to block this site from a page that is not his.
Evolutionofbodybuilding.net reveals that it is not only the pro event that live streaming will be used but for the entire weekend. This means that Giles Thomas was sharing a live feed that fans were made to pay for.
