Think of this as technical prose, and not really a good solution.

telnet empeg
rw
mv /empeg/bin/player /empeg/bin/player.disabled
cat > /empeg/bin/player << __EOF__
#!/bin/sh
echo "init will helpfully reboot if it can't run the player. Bad init. No biscuit."
return 0
__EOF__
chmod +x /empeg/bin/player
ps auxww|grep player|grep -v grep|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill
sleep 3
mv /empeg/bin/player.disabled /empeg/bin/player
fidsift
kill -1 1