Disc installation fail

I pre order Snow Leopard through Amazon. A parent receive it and send to Chile, my country. When I try install, the this fail.
I went to Apple reseller, which confirmed that the disk is bad, but they don't change the disc because Apple haven't international warranty for the software. So, I can't Install Snow Leopard.
Who answers?
Sorry with my English, but my native language is spanish.

Did you try starting up from the DVD by holding down c when starting up?

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