DVD stuck in drive, will not recognize anything is inside

I am currently traveling through Mexico and Central America. While in Mexico my friend bought a bootlegged dvd (i know, no bueno) and one night I attempted to watch it in my macbook. It spun and did the bad dvd thing for a while then it stopped spinning and I haven't been able to get it out for a week. My computer almost acts as if it doesn't have a cd drive anymore. I tried rebooting with the eject button held down and then with the mouse button held down. I typed various commands into terminal and finally it said, unmount failed for disk1, and unable to find disk for disk 1. The drive is making no noises anymore but I still can't get the cd out. In the system profiler under disc burning it says no disc burning device is found. Please help me I don't know what to do anymore.

Yes, i tried drutil eject, usr/bin/drutil eject, and a couple others, i also tried all the suggestions from the link that chamar sent (thank you), except the one with the cardboard, but the disc is no longer spinning.

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