It was only a matter of time, a blogger today informs that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has today been leaked onto the internet via a large amount of Torrent and Peer-2-Peer websites hosting it for download, and it has already had 15000 leechers. The games two DVD disks have been put-up for download by an unknown source, the download size is 13.8GB in total and is apparently a Multi-language version of the game, comprising of English, French, German, Italian and Spanish language files. The uploader also put some effort into proving it's legitimacy, including screenshots of the game folders as well as the games setup.

The game is untouched, it has not been modified to play without a disk or without an activation. So at the moment downloaders have been caught out, being prevented from playing the game due to the SecuROM DRM protection. The protection is doing it's job already. Only issue here is that SecurROM DRM protections have been cracked numerous times before by online groups, and no doubt there are groups wanting to crack GTA IV's protection already. For the moment all downloaders are being locked out from playing due to the protection, lets just hope the protection is more powerful than previous ones used on cracked games.

Please do the right thing and support Rockstar, purchase the game this week from a store, do not illegally download the game. Especially when it's 13.8GB's of data that is currently useless without a crack that does not exist, thats a little pointless.