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This person's DC is likely suffering age related degradation. Even when an electronic device is relatively new, marginal components inside it can cause it to suddenly ####t acting strange or not work at all. The odds are good that this person's DC would've died if he'd been using nothing but genuine officially Sega licensed GD-ROMs.
For 17 years I was in the electronics field and I know what static electricity can do to sensitive components. Those that were degraded (damaged) by static but still worked enough to pass the tolerance tests were called "WALKING WOUNDED" (a term that was borrowed from past wars). These "walking wounded" components, since they pass the tolerance tests (although not in the ideal range), still work just fine. They will, however, degrade further over time, to the point where the device they are in may stop working as designed.
There are "Walking Wounded" components installed in electronic devices every day, although ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) precautions keep them to a minimum. Any device you buy may have degraded parts and might die prematurely. Don't blame the death of your device on something it was designed to do, such as reading DISCS. CD-R discs aren't as difficult to read as GD-ROMS because the data on GD-ROMs is stored in a higher density than CD-Rs. As such, it could be argued that the laser might suffer more damage playing GD-ROMs than CD-Rs because it has to work harder reading the higher density or "read finer print" as it were.
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