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A U.S. jury in Texas on Wednesday ordered Facebook, its virtual reality unit Oculus, and other defendants to pay a combined $500 million to ZeniMax Media Inc., a video game publisher.

The jury awarded the sum after determining that Oculus executives violated a ZeniMax non-disclosure agreement in the early days of building the Oculus Rift VR headset.

However, it decided that Oculus wasn't guilty of misappropriating trade secrets, another of ZeniMax's charges.

The lawsuit, filed in May 2014, alleges that former id Software co-founder John Carmack stole the firm's intellectual property when he left the company to become Oculus' chief technology officer in 2013.

ZeniMax's lawyer Tony Sammi asked Zuckerberg: 'If you steal my bike, paint it, put a bell on it, does that make it your bike?'

To which Zuckerberg replied 'no.'

He also pressed the billionaire for an answer as to why Carmack allegedly had code and more than 10,000 documents from his former company.

'No, I wasn't aware of that,' Zuckerberg responded. 'It's something we should investigate.'

Zuckerberg also said that Carmack has not been disciplined over the allegations because 'it would be wrong to discipline employees for claims that we believe are wrong.'



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