Mac says DVD-rom is blank

I have a game disk from Sims 3 that won't open. I insert it in my Mac and after 2 minutes it says that the DVD is blank. On other computers works the disc fine. Please help me!!
Computer :
Mac OS X mountain lion (10.8.2)
Processor : 3,06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz RAM
Disk
DVD-rom

Well is it a DVD for the Mac system? Or for a Windows system?
If for Mac then maybe your drive is bad and needs to be replaced.

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