docs(README): Update the installation from binaries section

End-users should not downloads JARs from Maven Central, but use the distribution archives. Resolves #9749. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schuberth <[email protected]>
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 ## From binaries
 
-Binary artifacts for releases are published to [Maven Central](https://central.sonatype.com/namespace/org.ossreviewtoolkit).
+Head over to the [releases](https://github.com/oss-review-toolkit/ort/releases) page.
+From the "Assets" section of your chosen release, download the distribution archive of the desired type.
+Typically that is `.zip` for Windows and `.tgz` otherwise; but the contents of the archives are the same.
+The `ort-*` archives contain the [ORT main](./cli/) distribution, while the `orth-*` archives contain the [ORT helper](./helper-cli/) distribution.
+Unpack the archive to an installation directory.
+The scripts to run ORT are located at `bin/ort` and `bin\ort.bat`, or `bin/orth` and `bin\orth.bat`, respectively.
 
 ## From sources