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I've just been reading up on that. Apparently a magnet link won't work without at least one proper seed, as it still needs to download the torrent file from somewhere. https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/1393#issuecomment-389805621
A torrent link won't either? In either situation, the site needs to seed their own data, at a minimum.
A torrent file and a webseed is enough. The client uses the torrent file to validate the download from a standard http source.
The webseed can be the same source as the file your browser would normally download.
So yeah the site needs to seed the file, but not necessarily using a torrent client.