diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 47e686f84..bdc966946 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,15 +20,20 @@ youtube-dl - download videos from youtube.com or other video platforms
 
 To install it right away for all UNIX users (Linux, macOS, etc.), type:
 
-    sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
+    sudo curl -L https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
     sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
 
 If you do not have curl, you can alternatively use a recent wget:
 
-    sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
+    sudo wget https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
     sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
 
-Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://yt-dl.org/latest/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in any location on their [PATH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
+If you use Python3, use `sed` to edit the shebang (WARNING: editing the file using a text editor will likely corrupt it and lead to a zipimport error):
+
+    sudo sh -c "curl -L https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl|sed 1s/python/python3/ > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl"
+    sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
+
+Windows users can [download an .exe file](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl.exe) and place it in any location on their [PATH](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_%28variable%29) except for `%SYSTEMROOT%\System32` (e.g. **do not** put in `C:\Windows\System32`).
 
 You can also use pip:
 
@@ -791,7 +796,7 @@ As a last resort, you can also uninstall the version installed by your package m
 Afterwards, simply follow [our manual installation instructions](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html):
 
 ```
-sudo wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
+sudo wget https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases/latest/download/youtube-dl -O /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
 sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
 hash -r
 ```