Speaking without notes for 40 minutes, Mr Dotcom received loud applause, cheers and laughter as he told his tale of why he became politically involved in an effort to change the government at the September 20 election.
It was an entertaining and interesting speech that had the mixed age audience captured on a cold winter's night.
Ages ranged from students through to senior citizens. The young people were mainly party volunteers or activists.
Mr Dotcom told his side of the story regarding the armed raids on his home, the seizure of his assets, the closing down of his Megaupload site, used by 50 million people a day, and the loss of his business and 220 jobs.
After claiming he invented cloud storage for the internet, Mr Dotcom said his crime was making 50 million people happy every day.
And he was facing 88 years in jail because he provided that technology, which was now being used by other companies like Dropbox.
Since being out of jail, the internet entrepreneur had started a new cloud storage site - Mega - which had 12 million users and was using three times the bandwidth of the entire New Zealand bandwidth.
The policies for which Mr Dotcom received the loudest applause were those providing free tertiary education, providing grants to bright New Zealanders to help them establish their own businesses, stopping the government spy agency from spying on New Zealanders - and giving spies real jobs in an internet economy - and promoting social fairness.
He got plenty of laughter when he told people he was on the road for six weeks campaigning but, half the time, he had no reception on his mobile phone.
''How many people die on the side of the road because they can't call emergency services?''
But he saved his best for last when he introduced the Internet Party leader, Dunedin-born Laila Harre.
''Laila Harre is a woman but she has balls. You saw what they did to her when she stood up.
"The were throwing lava at her and she brushed it off like it was nothing.
"That is why we are polling near 4% and scaring the establishment and other political parties,'' he said to rapturous applause.
